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Open Video on a more Open Internet
dankles:
Maybe I'm a little slow, but I just found out that the new firefox 3.5 will include the "open Ogg Theora format" which plays natively on the browser in the new HTML5 <video> <audio> tags. Meaning that you don't have to have any media players or addons installed to be able to play any video/audio in this format.
One site that is working to move to this new specification is Dailymotion:
http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
I don't know if I like the idea of converting from 'lossy codec' to 'lossy codec', however it's still a big win for the Free Software Community. I can picture Richard Stallman watching his first 'community' online video ever lol (e.g. Youtube type stuff or in this case dailymotion).
Also, anything on http://www.wikimedia.org/ will work out of the box in the new firefox.
Anyways, I thought it was cool especially since I prefer free software over anything else. And I hope you think it's cool too.
EDIT July 6:
Codec debate for the HTML 5 video element:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars
Looks like all the major browsers minus IE will have native codec support for the HTML5 <video> tag. The only problem is that they can't agree on which codec will be supported. It is basically split between two: Ogg Theora and H.264.
bloody000:
gay. more useless shit that nobody cares.
Arveene:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on June 03, 2009, 03:46:38 PM ---gay. more useless shit that nobody cares.
--- End quote ---
That's great that YOU don't care about it. If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't post. Also, your sig is too large.
For anyone who supports/uses free software, it's great news.
dankles:
It's a great step towards broadening open internet standards. Which is helpful to both developers and customers. The companies that refuse open standards do so only to promote their own agenda and revenue while leaving the customer on the back seat.
Take a look at IE on acid3 tests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3#Desktop_browsers
Do you see what I mean? That's known as Anti-competitive.
That said, I'm not against corporations making money. Only against them making money at the expense of molesting the internet and it's users.
Is it wrong for me to think that way?
Natheria:
I for one find this news very heartening, and from Mozilla no less! This is definitely a huge leap forward for open source codecs when they get this kind of support. No doubt Richard Stallman is very happy as well. ::)
And in my experience Dankles, there's always one in every crowd that thinks it's wrong for you to think "that way". 8)
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