ITheora
ITheora is a PHP script allowing you to broadcast ogg/theora/vorbis only videos (and audios) files. It's simple to install and use. It may suit the usual blogger or the expert webmaster.
Itheora is different from other software allowing to stream videos, because it offers other features for the user visiting the website:
- choose between watching videos in an embedded player (much like a flash player), and watch the video in your favorite media player (using a plugin)
- download the video file
- share the video by using the HTML source code available
- display in full screen mode
- very quick display of the video.
Itheora has real improvements for the webmaster :
- displaying a thumbnail when the player is being launched
- almost complete interface customisation (skins, options, and languages)
- very simple XHTML-compliant code, easy to configure
- download possible by peer-to-peer (Bittorrent or Coral)
- streaming in real time and playing external videos (on an other server with http or ftp protocol)
- playlist (free format .xspf) or ogg podcast can be used
- support the html5 tag video
- a code generator make easier the configuration
- fall back on flash is possible
You can tube, but I theora
This software is like an alternative to the proprietary Flash players (file format and software), and is based on the Cortado java applet (ITheora is not a simple wrapper for Cortado), and helps the spreading of ogg/theora free (as in freedom ;) ) format.
In the same time, it allows you to be independant from online video services, such as youtube and dailymotion, because you can share the source code of the video from a blogger to another.
Theora Sea
Theora Sea is a sharing video area. This area is a simple list of links which target to hosted video, you cannot upload videos on this site. However, it make easier to generate podcast.
So you can submit videos that you host yourself, yet know that you are the unique liable of what you broadcast. Check that you respect copyright low of your country.
