> > I have watched the aKademy videos last year using VLC, so > > I surely know that VLC is able to play theora encoded > > video. > > was that a live stream or downloaded files? I watched them offline. Does this matter? AFAIK the videos have been streamed during the conference, but I do not remember exactly. > > BTW: Cool you use theora; I really hope it gets more > > known and used soon. > > yeah, i hope it will become as popular as ogg vorbis. One of the most advantages would be that it's not a format for a particular platform like mov or avi. As I created the linux audio tutorial videos, one of the most difficult (and impossible BTW) things to do was to find a format which was well supported on all platforms (except MPEG2 which creates huge filesizes and which is a very static format). > can you add a note to the wiki that says how exactly it > doesn't work and which vlc ebuild you are using? VLC media player 0.8.0 Janus > in case you haven't done so yet, start vlc from an xterm > and watch out for console messages. Well, I asked http://packages.gentoo.org and there's a newer version available (0.8.1). If I have some time I'll compile it and try out again. Best regards ce
