[aklug] AV: .webm, Matroska, Ogg Vorbis and Google

I uploaded a file to AMIPA's YouTube page this afternoon
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4dIUVRH0A> and much to my surprise
what I found there afterwards was a file with the extension .webm (I
don't keep up with current events - I should). Seems that Google and
others have purposed Open Source containers and codecs in their pursuit
of "free shit for you." I have to chew on this a bit but the adoption
of the Matroska wrapper by YouTube is a big deal because it means that a
media container/wrapper that has seen wide acceptance in the Open Source
community and has been adopted by some archives [1] and will now most
likely be more widely implemented by commercial concerns. FWIW changing
the file extension on YouTubes rendering of the file I uploaded to YT
today to .mkv, the extension for Matroska played just fine using Totem
Movie Player on my Linux box.

see: http://www.maketecheasier.com/encode-webm-videos-for-youtube-in-linux/
and official site: http://www.webmproject.org/

--greg

[1] see "Open Source Archiving: Archivematica at the City of Vancouver
Archives"
<http://opensourcearchiving.org/content/archivematica-city-vancouver-archives>

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Received on Fri Feb 28 22:17:59 2014