whatwg video support for your phone

Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to my trunk mozilla build and ran them through the ARM toolchain. The code works out of the box with the gstreamer backend that’s included on the N810.

I thought that it was important to show that we’re not just serious about adding video support to Mozilla, but that it can extend to a wide range of devices. If we want to have a world that includes rich internet applications, we have to be sure that includes phones and lower end devices as well.

The video itself is a speech that Cory Doctorow gave at the 2006 Red Hat Summit about copyright and intellectual property. I thought it was fitting.

If you’re a crazy maemo hacker you can get a copy of the build from my people page that includes gstreamer support. Follow Brad’s instructions to get a browser front end once you’re installed xulrunner somewhere. If you want to play a video you should make sure that you’ve encoded it for the N810 using a decent script to take advantage of the hardware accel on the device. Hack up an html page, embed the video like on Chris’ test page and try it out.