Tag archive 'Open Formats'

Securing all remote connections

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-12-21

I have been relying heavily on the insecure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for some time. But having been intercepted and watching my websites and computers being compromised again and again have finally got to me. I am now going the much more secure way of using Secure Shells (SSH).

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Multimedia Metadata Format

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-12-06

My work with a Multimedia Metadata Format for the Ogg multimedia container format have matured. The latest M3F draft introduces a variety of new ways to describe audio and video in great detail which is unmatched by any other format!

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Ogg extensions in the wild

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-17

FLAC 1.2.1 was released a few hours ago. Among the changes was a new file extensions for the Ogg FLAC format. The new .oga (audio/ogg) extension is a part of Xiph's new file extension and MIME type specification for their media formats. FLAC's implementation is one of the very first seen in the wild.

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OGG is for metadata too

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-07

OGG is a media container format. But it is also supposed to contain metadata; information describing the media it contains. But there is no standard at all for including metadata in OGG containers. I want to change that.

Update: Got it's own page on the Xiph wiki. Continued entry »

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