screencast of open web video in firefox 3.1

February 24, 2009 in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Video, Web Standards | 18 comments

I’ve made a screencast to describe some of the new video capabilities and how they can interact with the rest of the open web technologies we’re building into Firefox 3.1. Although I’ve embedded it below with a video tag (with a fallback to vimeo) I strongly suggest that you view the full sized version in either OGG Theora format or Quicktime H.264 for maximum clarity. It’s als up on vimeo.
You can find more information about using video and audio and web workers (threads) on developer.mozilla.org. Also I suggest that you follow the web-tech blog if you want to find out new features as they are added to Firefox. Enjoy!
  2. amau96’s avatar

    amau96 on February 24, 2009 at 1:43 am

    I got the last nigthly of shireteko
    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

    it’s look there is a probleme with the video player, when I try to move the cursor by my self, the video just stop and I can’t relaunch it

    Is it a known bug?

  3. Daniel’s avatar

    Daniel on February 24, 2009 at 2:06 am

    I have the same problem; tried rewinding a tad and it got stuck.

    Incidentally, it’s really hard to see the video with the element as small as it is. I really wish there was a “View in fullscreen” or even a “View in separate window” option. As it is, I had to ramp up the zoom level to make it a viewable size.

    That said, this is pretty damn nifty.

  4. Daniel’s avatar

    Daniel on February 24, 2009 at 2:18 am

    Incidentally, I love being able to right-click and select “Save video.” One day I might even be able to ditch Live HTTP Headers and CacheViewer :D

  5. Ben’s avatar

    Ben on February 24, 2009 at 2:52 am

    Ironic. The video tag you used does not work in the latest firefox 3, so i had to use Safari to view your screencast of Firefox 3.1.

  6. Tomer Cohen’s avatar

    Tomer Cohen on February 24, 2009 at 2:59 am

    There are some formats for closed captions/subtitles which will give even better experience to videos if you embed them in the video display. I am not sure if it should be added to the video object itself but fly above the video. This feature will make it easier to people to translate movies on the web, since the other methods to embed video do not support this without extra downloads.

  7. mie’s avatar

    mie on February 24, 2009 at 6:13 am

    That threaded movement-tracker is really good.

    I wish that would work as easy on the normal platforms as well.

    Funny how far ahead you are :)

  8. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on February 24, 2009 at 10:14 am

    I added a fallback to vimeo if your browser doesn’t support open video. Kind of nice that it’s easy to do that.

    Also I tested Safari last night. It should work if you have the Quicktime OGG component installed. Works pretty well, too!

  9. Tobias’s avatar

    Tobias on February 24, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Dreaming about the future. No quicktime and no flash plugins anymore. All done by the browser. All the code is open source. mmmmh :)

  11. Roy Schestowitz’s avatar

    Roy Schestowitz on February 25, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    You guy at Mozilla rock! Thanks for supporting Ogg.

  17. Jeroen’s avatar

    Jeroen on April 5, 2009 at 8:22 am

    Nice screencast, love to see this technology become part of the daily web experience.