The One Laptop Per Child project is now including a digital camera in the design of their "$100" laptop computer. According to their latest news, this device will record video at 30 fps and at VGA resolution. Also, the OLPC project is considering using content from WikiMedia, and video files at WikiMedia are stored in ogg theora format. Have folks involved in the OLPC project communicated with people at Xiph about supporting development of theora? It looks like OLPC is well funded, and would be in a position to do that. John Kintree -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20061009/c491a1f0/attachment.html
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:24:13AM -0700, John Kintree wrote:> The One Laptop Per Child project is now including a digital camera in the design of their "$100" laptop computer. According to their latest news, this device will record video at 30 fps and at VGA resolution. Also, the OLPC project is considering using content from WikiMedia, and video files at WikiMedia are stored in ogg theora format. Have folks involved in the OLPC project communicated with people at Xiph about supporting development of theora? It looks like OLPC is well funded, and would be in a position to do that.I've not heard from any of them personally. Perhaps you could try to get a dialog going? Note that at the current specs, the OLPC machine is going to have a lot of trouble doing realtime theora encoding. Might be possible to do something higher bitrate like the elphel camera does though. -r
On 10/9/06, Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org> wrote:> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:24:13AM -0700, John Kintree wrote: > > > The One Laptop Per Child project is now including a digital camera in the design of their "$100" laptop computer. According to their latest news, this device will record video at 30 fps and at VGA resolution. Also, the OLPC project is considering using content from WikiMedia, and video files at WikiMedia are stored in ogg theora format. Have folks involved in the OLPC project communicated with people at Xiph about supporting development of theora? It looks like OLPC is well funded, and would be in a position to do that.I work in the same group at RedHat as Chris Blizzard of OLPC and talk to him most days. Yes, it has come up and the OLPC group has done some amount of Theora testing looking toward OLPC. The problem boils down to CPU performance of theora which slightly outstips the OLPC in decode and is much worse yet at encode. Monty