Comments on: video for the web

By: mutfak dolabı

mutfak dolabı — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:06:12 +0000

it works, even better, on the Mac. But your question is, will there be a common codec for all browser: I sure hope, if not you are right: it will be useless.

By: prefabrik

prefabrik — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:27:12 +0000

Video as an element is still a huge opportunity compared to plugins and helpers. I just hope that we can get the double win and end up with at least a free and open baseline.

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J5’s Blog » Open Formats are the only way to guarantee an open web — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:53:54 +0000

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By: Karsten Wade

Karsten Wade — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:53:08 +0000

Greg alerts us that the language including OGG from the HTML 5 specification has been removed … at the concern of Apple and others:

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/20602.html

By: nicu

nicu — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:30:06 +0000

Yup, the build labeled “Ubuntu” works OK on Fedora. I wonder if there is any point in labeling it “ubuntu”, after all is a generic Linux tarball.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:46:58 +0000

I believe that the tag is purposefully designed to allow fallback through multiple codecs, although having multiple copies of the same media seems ugly it’s certainly better than being forced to use flash…

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:57:59 +0000

There’s interesting position papers for the video workshop here:

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/

Looking at Apple’s position paper, it looks like they are purposefully avoiding any mention of media encoding format…

By: blizzard

blizzard — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:31:47 +0000

Yeah, that was what I am worried about. It’s easy to say “it’s the operating system’s responsibility, we just pass through to whatever it provides” but given how inconsistent video is across operating systems I worry that it pushes that particular problem up into the browser.

Once again, video as an element is still a huge opportunity compared to plugins and helpers. I just hope that we can get the double win and end up with at least a free and open baseline.

By: j

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:57:45 +0000

Webkit on OS X uses QuickTime which in turn supports Ogg Theora / Vorbis if the XiphQT plugin (http://xiph.org/quicktime/) is installed. Right now Apple is not willing or even looking into shipping XiphQT.

By: blizzard

blizzard — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:41:18 +0000

Yep. Or mp3, or other random formats that can be done in hardware. Of course, create enough demand and maybe people will start building hardware to decode it.