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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by ucaetano »

deathanatos wrote: post #267
ucaetano wrote: post #247

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"Right to use" != "right to have it provided to you in an easy-to-copy way".

> "Right to use" != "right to have it provided to you in an easy-to-copy way". One of the big problems with DRM is that this ends up being not "right to use" but "right to use in several very narrow ways that someone else deems fit". If your use is innovative or just different — such as using a more capable media player with more features than the one provided to play the media with —, you end up being not able to do…

So if I write a poem in a rock in the middle of the desert I'm offending your right to have access to it? You can always film the screen and use that as fair use.

I'm against DRM, but "You're offending my rights to copy with minimum effort" is not an argument against it. Nobody has to provide anything in an easy-to-copy way, which doesn't mean that you don't have the right to copy it.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by tim333 »

notdan wrote: post #367
tim333 wrote: post #262

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That's cool. What did you use to slow the music/vid?

The YouTube slowdown is just using the YouTube API. For mp3, it is using the html5 file and audio Apis, and a JavaScript port of the sound touch library. Everything is done in client side javascript, there is currently no application server, just a static site.

Thanks for the info. I was thinking of building something doing somewhat similar stuff but I think it'd have to be sever side in my case.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by RunningWild »

username223 wrote: post #396
gurkendoktor wrote: post #311

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> But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups I would argue the peak in bug severity was 11.0, which randomly deleted podcasts: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324634?tstart=0 For me that meant 30 GB of podcasts gone, most of which I can't download again (publisher went broke, original download required payments etc.) Sigh. I used to be a big fan of iTunes as well.

Podcasts used to be simple: follow an RSS feed, download the audio files, listen to them, delete them when you're done. Now they're "cloud," so your computer is just a cache, and God only knows when you have those files, or when some program lets you use them.

Find a place where you can actually download them and do so. You're still drawing from the cloud, albeit just not dynamically.

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Post by vnchr »

RunningWild wrote: post #403

I love the trend of "Let's fix technology. With more technology!" The constant one-up-manship and the preposterous amount of options of all these tech companies makes me yearn for the days of DOS.

You're sure that's not a reflection of growing user diversity and mainstream technology adoption rather than over-engineering?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by roel_v »

jsprogrammer wrote: post #398
roel_v wrote: post #368

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Nope, still wrong (not 'arguably wrong', plain factually wrong). That's not how 'fair use' works - it's not because you send a part (what you call a 'clip') of a work, that it becomes fair use all of a sudden.

I'm not sure what you're reading, but I never said that sending part of a work makes it fair use. I said that there are fair uses that involve sending parts of a work and that proving a single or small number of pieces were transmitted between parties is not ipso facto evidence of infringement.

Look man, like my nan used to say - 'when you're in a hole, stop digging'.

"There can certainly be fair use arguments made for transmitting torrent piece sized copies of protected works."

How is that not 'sending part of a work makes it fair use' ? Yes yes you're using 'argument could be made' weasel words, but that doesn't mean you're not saying it. Here's a Godwin'ing analogy for good measure: 'arguments could be made that the Holocaust was justified. Of course I'm no nazi, I'm just saying that they could be made'. Yeah sure, good luck going on the record saying that and not (justifiably!) be classified as a nazi sympathizer.

Anyway:

"I said that there are fair uses that involve sending parts of a work"

No you didn't, you made some connection between 'the bittorrent technology, which sends pieces of data, and fair use of parts of works'. A connection that is non-existent. The criteria for fair use are wholly orthogonal to the concept of 'cutting up' a work as it is done in a bittorrent transfer. No (reasonable) argument can be made otherwise. There has been litigation on copyright infringement via bittorrent for about a decade now, if this line of reasoning stood any chance, wouldn't you think it had been used by now?

"that proving a single or small number of pieces were transmitted between parties is not ipso facto evidence of infringement"

Yes it is when there is no fair use involved, and there is no fair use claim just because bittorrent sends stuff in pieces.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by slederer »

shmerl wrote: post #365
slederer wrote: post #348

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MPEG-DASH is completely royality free. Find also more info on www.dash-player.com

Thanks. Do you know if this is documented anywhere?

There was an email at the MPEG-DASH mailing list where the key companies (Qualcomm, Microsoft, etc.) declared that. maybe you ask the question again on this mailing list: https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/dash

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by lukifer »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #311
username223 wrote: post #195

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> paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, Good to know I'm not the only one. I've become used to scrubbing the pointer up and down over the list of podcasts until the part I'm looking at is legible, and plugging my iPod in twice to get it to show up. But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups. At least it doesn't have enormous memory leaks, like Safari and Keynote, which regularly beac…

> But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups I would argue the peak in bug severity was 11.0, which randomly deleted podcasts: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324634?tstart=0 For me that meant 30 GB of podcasts gone, most of which I can't download again (publisher went broke, original download required payments etc.) Sigh. I used to be a big fan of iTunes as well.

This one bit me too, and I was/am livid that an assumption would be made that user data is merely an expired cache to be deleted without warning.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Post by jconnop »

spain wrote: post #354

Seems like it isn't perfect yet. At least on Firefox I don't get to watch videos in 1080p anymore on Youtube with the HTML5 player.

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/10/26/the-state-of-media-source-e...

TL;DR: For now you need to use beta/aurora/nightly releases of firefox to enable 1080p/4K youtube with the HTML5 player.

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