Earlier this week, Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com and WordPress (the software this weblog runs on) announced that they would be supporting Theora along with MPEG-4 as part of their VideoPress platform.
It’s important to realize that wordpress.com is the second top 20 website in the US to add support for Theora. (The other is Wikipedia. DailyMotion has also been experimenting with Theora – number 13 in France and 38th world-wide.) These technologies are still new, but it’s nice to see that people are adopting open standards and open formats as early as possible.
Along with some web site adoption, really great tools are starting to come together to support Theora in HTML5, making it super-easy to transcode videos into open formats.
It’s great to see so much progress in such a short period of time.
I’ve included a link below to the video that describes VideoPress in an open video format hosted at wordpress.com, along with with MPEG-4 and flash fallbacks.
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Congrats to the WordPress team. This is really awesome!
This is really good news. On a side note, whats the story with firefox 3.7. I noticed 3.6 allows full-screen mode in html5 by right clicking the video. Will 3.7 allow you to expose full-screen mode by adding a button in javascript.
This is the main thing I think is holding html5 video back over flash. I am hoping this can be exposed as an event sometime soon :D
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wordpress is growing big and bigger. I don’t think, that’s a good way.
What are the browser defaults for auto-buffering? I don’t have to be careful on every page that uses HTML5 video, do I?
I love wordpress
Michael, the default is to stop buffering after loading the initial video metadata (duration, etc). The website can override this using the ‘autobuffer’ attribute.
wordpress is best