The Video Bay, Now In Beta

poundhard writes "Some two years ago, it was mentioned on TorrentFreak and Slashdot that The Pirate Bay team were working on a YouTube competitor. At the oral proceedings of the Spectrial, I believe it was Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, who said to the prosecutor that it was one of those side projects that failed. A few days ago though, he appeared over Skype at the Open Video Conference in New York, and apparently said that they were about to launch something new. It has been speculated in Norway that it will be the IPREDator. But I checked out The Video Bay, and hey, it is about to go live! This is what they write: 'To stay in the spirit on which TPB was founded and using the Latest Technology, TVB aims to use the new HTML5 features, more specifically the <video> and <audio> tags with the ogg/theora video and audio formats. This site will be an experimental playground and as such subjected to both live and drunk (en)coding, so please don't bug us too much if the site ain't working properly.'"

Re:Awesome stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Wikipedia does use Ogg Theora [wikipedia.org] and <video> for videos.

Peter Sunde of TPB meets the Brazilian President

[Ezel]

Some related news:
Peter Sunde, one of the convicted(and appealing) men behind The Pirate Bay is right now at 'Fórum Internacional Software Livre' in Brazil where he among other things got to meet the brazilian president Lula. Here [trezentos.blog.br] is a picture of the meeting.
Peter Sunde himself talks a bit about it in his blog [brokep.com].

So what now Joe Biden? Time to invade Brazil for fraternizing with the enemy?

Re:Awesome stuff

[Jello B.]

I've uploaded tons of stuff to YouTube that was Ogg Theora. You're not looking hard enough.

Re:Awesome stuff

[Daemonax]

I know that you can upload it to youtube and it'll convert it... But to watch it you need flash, or to use a script to download the video files or something other things... I want to avoid using a site that requires you to use non-free software for it to work properly.

Re:Awesome stuff

[pejyel]

I've uploaded tons of stuff to YouTube that was Ogg Theora. You're not looking hard enough.

You can upload Ogg Theora videos on Youtube, but they will be automatically transcoded to FLV and viewable only as such.

The OP obviously looks for a site that allows viewing of ogg theora videos, thus getting rid of Flash lameness.

Off topic, but interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Some of you may find it interesting to learn what that "It has been speculated in Norway"-link actually means... well, NRK beta is the new technologies-playground of the STATE BROADCASTER (NRK). It sure is a healthy sign that they report on such things (Google translation [google.com]) in a favorable manner.

Re:Awesome stuff

[larry bagina]

Wikipedia is no longer accepting movies of dudes jacking off.

Re:So Flashsucks...but...

[Laxori666]

no, with HTML5, which is an open standard that any browser could implement without the need of a proprietary plug-in.

Re:Awesome stuff

[doublec]

Have you tried using tinyvid.tv [tinyvid.tv]. It uses Ogg Theora, using HTML 5 video, will fallback to the Java Cortado applet to play the video if the browser doesn't support HTML5.

Re:Awesome stuff

[Daemonax]

It is not free software. Free software has a very specific meaning. When it is spoken on, especially in a community such as slashdot it refers to software that you have freedom with. So software under the GPL, BSD, MIT, etc licenses. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [gnu.org]

Re:So Flashsucks...but...

[six]

various software patents owned by various entities.

theora is 100% patent free

Re:Private, Beta and Useless

[Radhruin]

Well, there is a sample video [thevideobay.org] that you can access without a password, but yeah, not much content here.