[theora] multiplexing theora videos

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> --- On Thu, 11/2/10, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
>> Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > You can multiplex several video tracks into one Ogg
>> file. That
>> > includes several camera angles. Just use oggz-merge.
>>
>> well, yes you can do that, but we don't yet have any way of
>> saying
>> that these tracks are multi-angle scenes. Of course we want
>> to mark
>> these in fisbone as alternates,
>
> I have not heard of fisbone before?
>
>> role:multiangle or
>> something, but that
>> needs to be specified and implemented in both authoring
>> tools and
>> players.
>>
>> Currently, players will either play only the first video
>> track, or
>> will show multiple simultaneous video windows.
>>
>> Conrad.
>
> I thinking of recording a short film with 3+ panorama video cameras[1][2]
> on the heads of the actors (concept stage currently)
>
> [1] <http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&XID=O:mhspm5k%2Fp:dg_ggldf&productId=8198552921666078172>
> [2] example video http://www.ryubin.com/panolab/panoflash/project_bloggie/test01/sample.html)
>
> tom

How do you intend to play it back? If you are putting this online, it
might be best to make several files and have people click on buttons
to chose a different media file and jump to the exact same offset in
them using JavaScript.

Cheers,
Silvia.