Comments on: whatwg video support for your phone

By: Henri Sivonen

Henri Sivonen — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:17:53 +0000

No, I mean the ‘type’ attribute on the ‘source’ element (with the ‘codecs’ parameter).

By: Chris Double

Chris Double — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:16:25 +0000

Henri, are you talking about the ‘media’ attribute on the ‘source’ elemenet? If so that is currently not implemented in the video element patch.

By: Henri Sivonen

Henri Sivonen — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:23:10 +0000

How does the GStreamer patch handle the RFC 4281-based alternative selection mechanism of HTML5?

By: blizzard

blizzard — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:16:49 +0000

Silvia – That video that I show was an ogg file that I re-encoded into mp4 for the actual N810. The N810 has hardware accel for that format so I chose it. I would also love to see bitrate and comparison comparisons for those devices. I have no idea where Theora would fall into that.

By: Silvia Pfeiffer

Silvia Pfeiffer — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:58:02 +0000

The video that you show – is that encoded in MPEG4/MP3? It would be interesting to see a comparison of codecs at that small bitrate on a phone, including Dirac and Theora.

By: Chris Double

Chris Double — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:58:49 +0000

James, I have the video on my site using the video element. The initial startup of usage of the video element is going to be the toughest. It’s so easy to use flash :)

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:36:19 +0000

That previous comment didn’t come out too well (the tag names were stripped rather than escaped). I was suggesting wrapping the Youtube flash embed with a video tag, so that the video could be viewed in browsers supporting the standard.

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:35:02 +0000

What would be even cooler would be if you wrapped the YouTube flash element with a element :)

Then people could marvel at Gecko’s tag support on mobile browsers using Gecko’s support.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:59:28 +0000

If only the tools for encoding video to Theora didn’t suck so much…

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:31:10 +0000

> 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.

Making Ogg the baseline codec will indeed allow this and more. Theora, the video codec, is known for being much less CPU intensive than H264, which means portable devices won’t be left behind in the revolution to come!