On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video. If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, this will be the place to be. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Ryanishungry.com recently posted a video based on short interviews that were done at a recent open video roundtable. It’s worth checking out.
•Direct video link: [OGG] [MP4]
Also consider following the openvideo twitter user, identi.ca user and facebook group.
Perhaps you could discuss limits to how much content the tag should preload? Metered broadband is fairly common in some parts of the world, and at present it seems like users could download hundreds of megabytes of content without even watching any of it.
There’s a bug open on that:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479863
It’s blocking 1.9.1, so we’ll fix it before we ship 3.5.
Great to see the video tag in use :)