Ogg (Vorbis, Theora, Speex, FLAC) in the future network.

In the future, we are waiting for HTML 5 with its own charms, one of which is the video tag. Despite the fact that under pressure from Nokia, support for Ogg Theora (by the way, Ogg is not an audio format, but a media container like avi, what you should associate with audio is Vorbis, FLAC, Speex) was excluded from the HTML 5 specification You can safely expect the support of this format from two browsers - Opera and Firefox. It's hard to say about Safari and Internet Explorer - Apple and Microsoft have their own media formats with DRM support. Whether these companies will maintain this open standard is a big question.
What will the web be like if Ogg is distributed? Perhaps the future will be defined both by the capabilities of the Ogg format itself and by how these capabilities will be implemented in browsers.

The most striking features, perhaps, are:

Support ogg-container multithreading.

The file can contain several Ogg streams of different formats, for example, several video (Theora) streams with different transparency, Vorbis music, Speex comments in different languages ​​and sound effects encoded in FLAC. A great opportunity for some artists to allow others to create by putting songs on tracks.

Direct, random access to file data when it is incomplete.

The absolute time indication is in the original section of the stream, and not in the header of the file.

Threading metadata.

It can be subtitles, information about the artist, singing at a particular moment or other information, such as links to other videos in the network of the object depicted at the moment.

The structure of the Ogg container is such that you can create subclips from an existing data stream.

This is interesting when the video is broadcast from the web server - you can specify the desired segment of the video: http://example.com/video.ogv?t=7–59

The simple principle of editing limited areas, as with the true sequence.

If you need to change a part of a file, re-encoding the entire file is not required.

So how does ogg affect the web?

Everything really depends on the performance of the ogg specification.
We are waiting for web services broadcasting p2p network files, even with the basic performance of ogg support (such services already exist, but they require flash, and do not play video).
If browsers give access via DOM not only to the video playback controls, but also to stream metadata, the video-audio web will change dramatically. Media services will be transformed. After all, these are incredible opportunities for contextual advertising, opportunities for dynamizing web pages through the content of ogg files: links mentioned in the video appear when necessary; emerging descriptions of terms used by scientific figures; or even images, but not from a video stream, but from a metadata stream. In general, all that fantasy is enough. But this is not just fantasy, but a very real future.
The ability to edit video on the server through a web interface based on open web standards.

Distribution problems

The big problem for distribution is the lack of full-fledged tools that implement the capabilities of the standard. All that is now is encoding / decoding, and no streaming metadata, limited editing, multithreading with alpha overlays. Perhaps the implementation of ogg in browsers will push the appearance of tools, and those in turn will push the spread of ogg. But this is from the point of active user. And from the point of basic use on web servers, the standard works and is already in use. wikimedia jamendo.com

Today’s web developer perspectives

We can say for sure: who will undertake the development of a web service of this kind now, prepare for implementation in ogg browsers, in the absence of full tools, in the future can count not only on popularity, profitability, but also encroach on the palm of video broadcasting on the network, which is now no doubt about youtube.

What are open standards for the average user?

Using and promoting open standards, we provide ourselves and other great opportunities for creativity, we care about the lack of DRM technologies and the absence of undocumented or uncontrollable opportunities (which means in some way the preservation of personal information). In addition, open standards are a guarantee of free competition, which means an increase in the quality of instument.
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