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In an effort to make Internet Archive videos more accessible to XO users, the internet archive will be converting all their videos to OGG Theora.

The other day John Gilmore pointed me towards a very interesting initiative: the Internet Archive is currently working on making all its videos accessible to OLPC XO users by converting them to Ogg Theora. And in this case “all its videos” means 185,000 moving images, including many cartoons and full-length movies that have fallen into the public domain.

Now that’s quite an impressive number I dare say! I’m also pleasantly surprised by the speed – up to a maximum of 1000 videos per hour (!) – with which the Internet Archive is converting its content. To date almost 50% of their videos have been made available as .ogg.

Sweetness!  Go Brewster.

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