why open video?
by Christopher Blizzard
The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video Conference.
hi,
are you awere of fact how badly those video tags look in “planet gnome”?
Just look here, your post looks realy bad. Isn’t this valid bug report for Planet-software http://www.planetplanet.org/
[...] Blizzard: why open video? Some people wonder what the big deal is about open video and why it’s important. Christopher [...]
Sorta tangential. support in firefox is _terrible_. And I’m not just talking about it not using DirectShow/GStreamer/QuickTime for video on their respective OSes (Coming Soon(TM), I hear), but from a performance point of view, it’s abhorrent.
A quick unscientific test with this video had top showing firefox using 40-55% CPU while playing, whereas mplayer never went above 10%. OK, it’s not as bad as Flash (blip.tv videoes use 75% CPU in firefox vs. 15% with mplayer), but still terrible. (1.73GHz Centrino)
But apparently noone cares about p***ing away cycles for no reason these days.
It’s not true that we don’t care. We do know it takes a longer path to get to video. It goes through the web rendering pipeline, which adds some overhead and we’re working on making that better.