Christoph Eckert wrote: >>>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? yes. the problem you described is specific to streaming. >>>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). try reencoding them with ffmpeg2theora. >>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. let me know.
