No, it is not spyware.

A good description of how to use it is here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/TheoraCookbook/HTML5

Other parts of that cookbook also explain the advantages.

Daily Motion conversions were broken for a few days due to changes on their end. They should be working again now.

Very nice!

if you want to try out full screen support with the videos, try this firefox extension.

This looks to be a bug in Firefogg. I've raised it with the Firefogg maintainers.

File uploads now transcode after uploading if it is not an Ogg file. This means you can upload most forms of video files and let tinyvid deal with the conversion to Ogg. I'm still tweaking the error handling and things - let me know if there are any problems.

File uploads now transcode after uploading if it is not an Ogg file. This means you can upload most forms of video files and let tinyvid deal with the conversion to Ogg. I'm still tweaking the error handling and things - let me know if there are any problems.

No, it must be an Ogg container. This can contain any stream type but only Vorbis and Theora are likely to be played by the browsers.

I'm not keen on screen scraping things like descriptions from other sites. I'd prefer people click on the link and go to YouTube, or the other site, to read the description. The ability to transcode the video from other sites is useful so those without Flash (or those who choose not to use it) can watch the videos. Reading the description moves more towards leeching off the other site vs providing a service on top of it.