[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-08-12 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Changed in: example-content (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: istanbul (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: recordmydesktop (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-07-15 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format To manage not

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-06-27 Thread John Drinkwater
So it’s been a year since this opened, and little change anywhere on the desktop. Any updates? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the defa

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-05-01 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
AVC offers much better compatibility across encapsulation formats (notably MPEG-TS) and playback devices than WebM currently does. The Ubuntu community is not going to take care of the surge of support request and bad publicity a new version of VLC gets if it breaks that compatibility. VP8/WebM is

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-05-01 Thread verb3k
So in your country, both H.264 and VP8 are on the same grounds legally. Then why do you choose H.264 over VP8? 1-The VP8 format bitstream is final, and its patents are provided under an open license, so there is nothing left for Google to control, apart from developing/improving the reference impl

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-05-01 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
You are assuming that they are no other patents than Google's on VP8. This is an unproven assertion, and some experts have clearly voiced their serious doubts. The VideoLAN project has an informal policy of not taking software patents into accounts when taking decision for the simple reason that:

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-04-30 Thread verb3k
@Rémi Denis-Courmont: VP8 is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation as its patent license is compliant with software freedom. It is because Google owned the patents that they were able to license them with that open license. Patents aren't code. You can't "release" them or nullify them once they

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-02-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
In reply to comment #25 > This is for VLC's convert wizard. The default preset should be WebM instead > of a proprietary format >From Wikipedia: "In telecommunications, a proprietary protocol is a communications protocol owned by a single organization or individual." WebM is fully controlled by

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-02-25 Thread Mechanical snail
per https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/593477/comments/25 ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title:

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-02-25 Thread Mechanical snail
Per https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/593477/comments/25 ** Changed in: vlc Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-02-25 Thread Mechanical snail
Per https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/593477/comments/25 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format -- deskt

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-02-03 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: farsight Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format -- desktop-bu

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2011-01-25 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: farsight Importance: Medium => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format -- desktop-bu

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-10-05 Thread Vish
I mean , closing the cheese task in this bug report!:-) -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-10-05 Thread Vish
Cheese Upstream had set the bugzilla bug as a dup of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564957 , which is already being tracked in Bug 385344 . Ideally if this bug had only a single cheese task, I could have duped it but since this has several other tasks. Closing this bug report. Anyo

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-10-05 Thread Danny Piccirillo
This is for VLC's convert wizard. The default preset should be WebM instead of a proprietary format -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to e

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-10-05 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailin

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-10-05 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
** Changed in: vlc Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list de

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-25 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
** Changed in: pitivi (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: pitivi (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Deskto

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-21 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Empathy is already ready for this. We "just" need a VP8 payloader/depayloader in GStreamer. ** Changed in: empathy Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Fix Released --

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-21 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
telepathy-gabble is not involved in this. ** Changed in: telepathy-gabble Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-18 Thread Vish
@Danny Piccirillo : While your efforts at championing this change is appreciated , you do realize that you are spamming everyone right? As of now, there are 11ubuntu tasks and 12 upstream tasks in this bug report and the changes in each of those tasks spam everyone. Not everyone is interested in

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-18 Thread Danny Piccirillo
For rendering in PiTivi and converting in VLC ** Also affects: pitivi (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pitivi Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: vlc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: vlc Import

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: istanbul Importance: Unknown => Wishlist -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs maili

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-12 Thread Danny Piccirillo
** Also affects: example-content (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: example-content Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-09-11 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: cheese Importance: Unknown => Critical -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-08-23 Thread YannUbuntu
Comment #15 : does this mean that Google did not give yet all informations about WebM ? -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubun

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-08-11 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: cheese Status: Unknown => Confirmed -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-08-11 Thread Vish
Upstream bug was marked dup of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564957 , changing bug watch. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #564957 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564957 ** Changed in: cheese Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: cheese Remote watch: G

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-08-09 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: cheese Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list d

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-07-15 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: pidgin Status: Unknown => New -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list d

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-07-15 Thread Micah Gersten
Marking the pidgin task triaged since we now have an upstream bug. ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #12325 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12325 ** Changed in: pidgin Importance: Undecided => Unknown ** Changed in: pidgin Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: pidgin Remote watch:

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-22 Thread Sebastien Bacher
upstream bug comment "Farsight2 doesn't pick codecs. The preferences are set by the application by calling fs_session_set_codec_preferences(). That said, as soon as there is a more or less standardised RTP payloading for VP8. I do plan to advertise it as the best format to use." ** Changed in: t

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-16 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Hmm...FFmpeg 0.6 released, codenamed "Works with HTML 5" http://lwn.net/Articles/392248/ -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubu

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-15 Thread Dominic Evans
I think you'll find that the official ffmpeg trunk has only had vpx encoding for around 12 days, and webm muxing for about 8 days. Maverick is still on ffmpeg 0.5.1 (0.5.2 is latest official release) and Ubuntu tracks releases rather than svn snapshots. I'd hence hypothesis that the bugs you've ra

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-15 Thread Danny Piccirillo
ffmpeg upstream has had webm support since it was announced, and it should have it by maverick. pitivi is based on gstreamer, not ffmpeg, which has also had webm support upstream since the announcement. -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You r

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-15 Thread Dominic Evans
e.g., there's not much point in recordmydesktop making .webm files when none of the editors (e.g., pitivi) based around ffmpeg can edit them -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-15 Thread Dominic Evans
Surely these bugs cannot be usefully completed until the ffmpeg .deb in maverick starts having compiled-in webm support? -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, whi

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Oops, didn't mean to add this in the first place ** Changed in: amsn Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to e

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Danny Piccirillo
@Omer Akram Okay thanks. Hopefully i've added them correctly! Let me know if not ** Also affects: telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: telepathy-gabble Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: farsight2 (Ubuntu) Importance

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Omer Akram
@Danny Piccirillo For telepathy, bugs should be opened for telepathy gabble, farsight2 and gstreamer but empathy is not related at all. -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu De

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Vish
Thanks for sending upstream ** Changed in: cheese (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ub

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: cheese Status: Unknown => New ** Changed in: istanbul Status: Unknown => New -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Danny Piccirillo
For some reason i can't link recordmydesktop to the upstream bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3016200&group_id=172357&atid=861428 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #621598 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621598 ** Changed in: cheese Importance: Undecided

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Danny Piccirillo
That would go for pidgin as well, but isn't a standard planned? Wouldn't that mean this bug isn't invalid? -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-14 Thread Yannick Defais
If the above is true, it is the same issue with the SIP protocol, thus invalid for Ekiga too. Best regards, Yannick ** Changed in: ekiga (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: ekiga Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format https://bugs.laun

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-13 Thread Omer Akram
Currently it cannot be used for telepathy for #telepathy "currently there's no standard for vp8 rtp payloaders or depayloader, until there is a standard, it can't very well realistically be used for voip" ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Use VP8/WebM as the defau

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-13 Thread Vish
This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream. Once submitted upstream , do report back here

[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

2010-06-13 Thread Danny Piccirillo
** Summary changed: - Use WebM as the default video format + Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: cheese - WebM should be used by default for superior quality and widespread acceptance -- Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/form