http://blog.gingertech.net Silvia's blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:34:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The IETF has just ratified RFC 5334 "Ogg Media Types", which I have co-authored. The new Ogg MIME types are as follows: audio/ogg for all Ogg files that contain predominantly audio, such as Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg or .oga), Ogg Speex files (.spx) or Ogg FLAC files. The file extension recommended to ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/09/05/new-ogg-mime-types-ratified/ Have you ever been haunted by an old open source package that you wrote once, published, and then forgot about? The BSD community has just reminded me of the MPEG audio analysis toolkit Maaate that I wrote at CSIRO when I first came to Australia and that was then published through ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/08/23/resurrecting-old-maaate-code/ The Foundations of Open Media Software workshop has just extended its deadline for submission of registrations requests with travel sponsorship. FOMS addresses hot topics - such as the new <video> and <audio> tags in HTML5, the uptake and development of open video codecs like Ogg Theora, BBC's Dirac and SUN's OMS ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/08/15/foms-submission-deadline-extended/ liboggplay is a library that vastly simplifies the decoding and playback of Ogg encapsulated audio-visual content for programmers. It abstracts away from the complexity of libogg's encapsulation pages, codec packets, and encoded data, giving the programmer the freedom to work with audio-visual streams, video frames, and audio samples. It does ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/08/06/seeking-a-maintainer-for-liboggplay/ Mozilla have just published a brief statement that they have taken legal advice before they chose to support Ogg Theora/Vorbis natively in the Firefox codebase. Seems like the risk of submarine patents was not large enough to hold back. Apple and Microsoft should follow this example, undertake their own patent risk ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/08/04/the-end-of-patent-fud/ What a day for great news! Chris Blizzard and Chris Double of Mozilla have just announced that native Ogg Theora and Vorbis support is now available in the trunk of Firefox's codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/native-ogg-theora-support-in-firefox/ Julian Frumar used to be our Visual Communications Manager at Vquence until last year, when he left for new grounds and created a startup with two friends in Palo Alto called Omnisio. They received Y-combinator funding and worked hard on creating this video-centric Web2.0 startup in a very short amount ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/congratulations-to-julian/ ...because of your outstanding contributions to Australia's computing sector, but haven't had the chance to put yourself out there? Or you have a friend who really deserves an award for his excellent work? Here's your chance. This year's NSW State Pearcey Award is open for applications and nominations. It is one ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/20/so-you-think-you-deserve-an-award/ I just tried comparing the different date & time selection plugins that are available for Rails and because the wiki page at rubyonrails.org is dated and I cannot edit it, I decided to write this brief blog post to save you the 20 min it took me to locate the ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/17/date-time-selection-plugins-for-rails/ The W3C has just released a set of proposed charters for a new W3C Video in the Web activity with a request for feedback. The following working groups are proposed: Timed Text Working Group Media Fragments Working Group Media Annotations Working Group Two ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/04/w3c-video-in-the-web-activity/