Open Video

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

Video is the dominant medium of the web and more video content is open video content. The development of open source players and codecs that are alternatives to Flash, Quicktime, and Windows Media is part of that. Public browser tools, like Firefox’s Firefogg extension, which is being used experimentally by Wikipedia is also part of the movement. Firefogg also allows for uploading and playing non-proprietary video formats.


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Will technology and public policy support a more participatory culture—one that encourages and enables free expression and broader cultural engagement? Some observers feel that online video is already becoming a glorified TV-on-demand service. Open Video is a movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video through open standards, open source, and open content.

Nonprofits like the Participatory Culture Foundation and the Open Video Alliance and for-profits like Kaltura and Intelligent Television are also dedicating efforts to open video. There's funding from the Mozilla Foundation and Ford Foundation to support developers, programmers, and activists.

Wikipedia is now opening up to video. (It's possibly more surprising that it hasn't included video already.) They are working to include video in an open format (Ogg Theora). A video from the  Open Video Alliance talks about that day when video will be much easier to create, edit,
annotate, and remix. How easy? As easy as we do it now with text.


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