First batch of videos from LibrePlanet 2013 published!

On 09/08/13 12:00, t3g wrote:
> Its funny how the Trisquel videos are hosted on Ubuntu One, a 3rd
> party cloud service where the client is purged from the Trisquel
> repos because the client and service are considered unethical.
> Hypocrite much? Why couldn't Ruben host on the Trisquel servers?
> Even Jason Self was nice enough to host these on his site too.

Using Ubuntu One over HTTP doesn't require proprietary software. Using a
cloud service for public distribution isn't really too bad either, if
you can easily replace that service.

Andrew.

There is a difference between the client (which is proprietary), and the web service (remember that the software is running on the server, and not on your computer, so it cannot do any harm. The only problem can be if the website is using some JavaScript code with unmarked/non-free license, but that's a freedom issue, and not a technical one, since the code is human-readable, and thus it can be auditioned, except if code obfuscation was done).

The reason to choose Ubuntu One for multimedia hosting is simple: it supports embedding (and the audio/video does not need to be re-encoded, 'cause that automaticaly lowers the visual/audible quality, while doesn't give any benefits other than HTML5 compatibility, which is anyway questionable, since the original material is coded with Theora/Vorbis, and is already supported within Firefox/Abrowser). I tinkered with various other options (Amazon S3, Dropbox, FileChum, gobblin.se, Google Drive, MediaFire, Mega, and probably others), but none of them worked the way I wanted, since the idea was to have it playable within the Trisquel website.

MediaGoblin is great, except that it's working on a different principle (it a web-player, with its usual side-effects), and cannot be used as a file hosting service (this is not entirely true, since the uploaded media can be downloaded in the originally uploaded/source version, but embedding still doesn't work).