video – Just another Linux geek

4 February, 20104 February, 2010FOSS, Tech

Trying to kill Theora – MPEG LA extends royalty free use of H.264 for Internet streaming

So the MPEG LA has extended the royalty free life of Internet streaming H.264 video from the end of 2010 to the end of 2016. The majority of patents expire […]

1 February, 20101 February, 2010FOSS, Tech

MPEG LA confirms H.264 license needed for free software and end users

Currently, there is no default video format for use with the HTML5 video tag. The patent and royalty free Theora format was planned to be the default, but this was […]

27 January, 201027 January, 2010FOSS

Ogm != Ogg

I just discovered that the Ogg Media format (OGM) is not a specification supported by Xiph Foundation. That’s right, OGM is not Ogg. OGM is an extension of Ogg which […]

27 January, 201027 January, 2010Tech

Christopher Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web

Christopher Blizzard has a great article about H.264 and what it might mean if it becomes the de-facto standard for video on the web. Remember, this is still very early […]

22 January, 201022 January, 2010FOSS, Tech

YouTube HTML5 beta program launched, but without Theora support

Google has created an opt-in beta program for anyone wanting to test YouTube with the HTML5 tag rather than using Flash. There are a few caveats however, with the number […]

24 September, 200925 September, 2009Tech

How to host a Windows 7 Launch Party

My goodness, Microsoft is so hip and cool. They’ve made a video on how to host a Windows 7 Lunch Party. Of course for each of the characters you’ve got […]

13 August, 2009FOSS

ffmpeg Cheat Sheet

Came across this useful cheat sheet for ffmpeg, for anyone wanting to easily manipulate audio visual material.

10 July, 200910 July, 2009FOSS

Kdenlive: A Video Editor in the Spotlight

KDE4 is getting really, really good but it’s still missing an awesome video editor. Maybe Kdenlive can fill that gap and become the official video editor for the desktop, it’s […]

15 October, 200815 October, 2008FOSS

Putting DPI into perspective

Prior to the purchase of brand new workstations at work, Justin and Andy were working from Macbook Pro laptops. We had these Matrox DualHead2Go boxes which took a video signal […]