[theora] video-email

[Conrad Parker]

On 2 July 2010 00:59, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
<ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think an important caveat is that while Vorbis is normally
>> encapsulated in Ogg already, Speex usually isn't.  So, he would need
>> something that can mux Speex already.  Do any of the standard Speex
>> tools already mux Speex into Ogg?
>
> liboggz (and its tools) supports Speex in Ogg.
> speexenc encodes Speex from PCM (can mux in ogg).
> speexdec decodes Speex (can probably do from ogg)

yes, speexdec only decodes Ogg Speex. Ogg is the native container
format for Speex files.

> Gstreamer has Speex elements.
>
> So a combination of speexenc and oggz-merge might do.

yup, that would work. It should also work streaming (eg. set up fifos
for the audio + video inputs, and run oggz-merge on those).

> For realtime (as opposed to plain files), I'm not sure if speexenc can
> be used, I haven't checked.

I don't see why not, it doesn't do any seeking on the content, and
should be quite fast enough on any platform that can do Theora.

Conrad.