2010-01-14

news from the Ogg front

Just received this message from the Ogg-format promotion team: "FSF volunteer and GNU Generation member Osama Khalid just launched a great tool: TinyOgg. TinyOgg takes in a link to a Flash video (boo!) and spits
out a link to an Ogg video (hooray!).
FSF-blog
It only works with videos you have posted to YouTube for now, but his
intention is to support a long list of sites.

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