Open Video: I Want My OGG
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Last Friday I decided to have a go at teaching myself After Effects. I’ve been wanting to test the waters of motion graphics for a while and decided to take the plunge. A few hours later I had the startings of a fun intro video I’ve been wanting to create for some time now. It’s no where near complete as I want to inject whimsy and merriment to a higher degree, but it’s a start.
Exporting the video to Quicktime, it weighed in at a hefty 250Mb at 1280 x 720. Ouch.
So what did I do? I gave the OGG format a whirl. An open video standard with dead simple <video> code bits to slap ‘er into a page? Sure! Sign me up.
The result was the 1280 x 720 250Mb Quicktime turning into a 1280 x 720 1.5 Mb OGG file. Now I don’t know about you, but that seems pretty fantastic to me.
Here is the result for your viewing pleasure (Firefox 3.5 beta required to view).
Enjoy!
note: I’m sure my lack of knowledge about video codecs and compression may be showing in regards to the file sizes, but hey, I’m just starting out in the moving picture scene. 
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toil and trouble for bubbles?
Seems great? The quality would be incomparable. Seems great? What if a user wants to view your video with IE?
Please can we stop this “oh we’re so good we do OGG which is the best thing since sliced bread” PROPAGANDA
@pd: Actually, the quality holds up nicely for the size difference.
@pd: I think the general message would be “one can do fun stuff with open technology these days”. Actually no claim of being “the best thing since sliced bread” was made.
@Sean:
Can you elaborate on what your Ogg workflow looks like (platform, tools etc.)? Actually you seem to be using a pretty old encoder (Xiph.Org libTheora I 20060526), so encoder technology currently in development may give you a nice quality improvement for a given output size.
250 MB for 8 seconds? Sounds uncompressed…
Unfortunately, the viewing experience was everything but great for me, filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495794 on this.
It takes 70% CPU power to process it…
Wish to see some improvements here.
“What if a user wants to view your video with IE?”
Then they can download the file or stream it through an external media player or use an embedded player through a fallback
@pd:
the tags degrades in browsers that dont support it. so, you put a on your webpage (and it plays on firefox 3.5), and then you put content inside it for browsers that don’t support it, like embedding a flash video there…and ie will still think things are peachy.
the tags were stripped in my last post, forgot to
the >videovideovideo< tags for browsers that don’t support it, like embedding a flash video there…and ie will still think things are peachy.
Quicktime and Ogg are container formats, it’s the codec that is more important. For Ogg I assume it’s Theora, and for Quicktime I’m guessing it’s uncompressed. Is it possible you can find out what parameters were used for each video?
Or better yet, tell MS (and the other browser makers/HTML WG) to support Ogg.
Support Ogg!