Re: Marketing video delivery mechanism

[will kahn-greene <willg bluesock org>]

PCF and Mozilla are working on a Universal Subtitles system that
supports multiple browsers and videos regardless of where they exist on
the Internet.

http://universalsubtitles.org/

I think they're in an alpha state.  I don't know what the release
timeline looks like, but they've been working hard and could use more help.

Back in August, they posted that they support Theora, WebM, YouTube, and
blip.tv, plus there's a video with the subtitles widget.

http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/2010/08/25/universal-subtitles-new-version-released/

I think this is a good option for subtitle/translation support for
videos for the GNOME 3.0 campaign.  If there are problems, we could work
with the Universal Subtitles folks to iron them out.  That's probably a
lot less energy and time than rolling our own system.

I work for PCF, but not on the Universal Subtitles project.  I can get
you (for some group of you) in touch with the Universal Subtitles people
to work out logistics of their release schedule and the GNOME 3.0 video
campaign release schedule.

/will


On 09/23/2010 03:04 PM, Jason Clinton wrote:
> I've been a bit worried about how we will translate the 3.0 launch videos in
> to other languages. Xiph just posted a video in HTML5 <
> http://wiki.xiph.org/Playback_Troubleshooting> which has subtitles and
> encourages contributed translations. It works in Firefox (OGG) and Chrome
> (WebM).
>
> This is the first HTML5 video that I've seen that is more user friendly than
> YouTube. However, it doesn't support IE or Safari. <
> http://wiki.xiph.org/Playback_Troubleshooting>
>
> YouTube now offers IFRAME-based embedding that automatically favors HTML5
> but only if the user has "opted in" to the HTML5 beta on YouTube's site.
>
> It seems that we should try to do both: our own HTML5 player and YouTube
> through a browser user agent test, if we have the resources to implement
> both. Do we have the resources? If we don't, which should we favor?