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STREET ART UTOPIA Apr 19, 2023

GLITCH: A Lovely Blue Mural by Theora in Corsica, France

“GLITCH,” an ethereal mural by Theora hidden under a bridge in Corsica, France. Featuring two girls, flowers, and a butterfly in various shades of blue, this captivating artwork is sure to charm you. Theora’s skillful use of blue tones creates a dreamy atmosphere in this striking mural. The girls, surrounded by flowers and a butterfly, inhabit a serene, mystical realm. By placing “GLITCH” under a bridge, Theora transforms an overlooked space into a hidden gem, showcasing the […]

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Job Bautista Mar 10

Is it just me or is #ffmpeg and #HandBrake's libtheora encoder broken? No matter what quality settings I use it just results in a glitchy output.

Funnily it doesn't happen in VLC 3.0.20 despite Xiph's wiki warning that VLC creates broken Ogg streams

EDIT: Nvm #VLC does create broken Ogg streams lol, the video and audio gets out of sync at some point for whatever reason, and ffprobe says the keyframe is not correctly marked

EDIT2: Aha, apparently VLC has trouble keeping the same frame rate at 23.976216 fps... Putting it at 24 puts everything back in sync

#ogg #theora

ArneBab Feb 25

Just realized that when #Chrome and then #Firefox removed ogg #theora in 2024, they also broke the wisp-mode preview on my website.

Because ogg theora was (is?) the default format of recordmydesktop.

https://www.draketo.de/software/wisp#wisp-mode-0.3.0

Switched to mp4+vp9 now, but still: the site was broken and I had to fix it manually.

Web standards promised not to do that:

"don’t break the web" → https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Getting_started/Web_standards/The_web_standards_model#dont_break_the_web

@ezra you do realize that #AV1 is a superset of #VP9?

https://wetdry.world/@ezra/114407858544159170

You could add #VP3.2 (#Theora), & #VP8 instead...

a number 6 with ezra dip :neocat_flag_androgyne: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image ezr's guide to the only three codecs they like

Wet-Dry World

Neustradamus :xmpp: :linux:Apr 20, 2025

#libtheora 1.2 has been released (#Theora / #VideoCodec / #Codec / #Xiph / #libogg / #libvorbis / #On2 / #On2VP3 / #VP3) https://xiph.org/theora/

Xiph.org :: theora main

frater mus Jan 31, 2025

After trying many, many audio apps I 've been using an audiobook player (Smart Audiobook Player) for #podcasts for a few years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer

I d/l my podcasts $ELSEWHERE and use ffmpeg to convert to #opus audio, normalizing and reducing bandwidth. Recently a good many of these have been coming up "corrupted" in the player.

I used the ``file`` util to examine; it showed them as #theora video. What? I loaded up in #vlc and there was a "cover image". Some quick google-fu advised adding ``-map 0:a`` to restrict to purely audio in the #ogg container; worked great!

Smart AudioBook Player - Apps on Google Play

This application is full of useful features for playing audio books

Carlos Solís Nov 8, 2023

I still remember when #Theora was the only video codec that @wikipedia could use due to licensing issues. It was like three or four times larger than the then-current H.264 equivalent file, and encoding quality was questionable at best. How fast does time pass, we've since gone through #VP8, #VP9 and now #AV1 is positioning itself as the ultimate video codec, trading blows more or less evenly with H.265. Oh and don't even get me started with the #Opus audio codec! Theora will be fondly remembered by the free software community.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/theora_video_codec_deprecation/

Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox

Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur

The Register

Marcus Adams Nov 7, 2023

#Mozilla Eyes Removal Of #Theora Support In #Firefox

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Eyes-Dropping-Theora

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

Maxi 12x 💉Nov 2, 2023

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of #Theora Support In Firefox

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Eyes-Dropping-Theora

Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Dropping-Theora

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

❄️ freezr ❄️Oct 30, 2023

I found this interesting post on the #Phoronix Forum:

This means that if I want to make my website invisible to people using Chromium-based browsers, I need only render the pictures in JPEG-XL and the videos in Theora. Sounds good to me. What method should I use to make the text invisible as well? Are there any fonts not rendered by Chromium?
Will the Google-bot stop indexing Theora videos? Does it index JPEG-XL pictures?

Please to all the #Gemini clients #developers — @jk @op @cage — make your client able to render #JPEGXL images and #THEORA codec videos.

On the Gemini space we won't suffer by any of those vulnerability while we are going to increase privacy!

I #donot #love #Boogle
but I #dolove #GeminiProtocol