Category Archives: OGG

quick tip: open web video and mime types

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

A quick note if you’re going to be using OGG open web video hosted on web servers.  There’s an important configuration change that you should make so that Firefox recognizes it as video.  In my Apache configuration I’ve added this … Continue reading →

Posted in howto, OGG, Open Web, Video | 10 Comments

fallback options for the video tag

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Some of you might have noticed that I was able to use a fallback in my previous posts that include a native video tag. I was going to do a post on how that works. It’s pretty simple. But Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, howto, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | Leave a comment

screencast #2 of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

In my last post I put up a pretty long video that contained a couple of really neat demos. Yesterday Paul made another demo, one that’s short and sweet and is self-explanatory. Pretty neat what you can do in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta, Evangelism, Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Video | 8 Comments

screencast of open web video in firefox 3.1

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Video, Web Standards | 18 Comments

why open video?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post.  I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog as … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Long Attention Span, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 108 Comments

streaming video in firefox

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Gecko, General, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 21 Comments

competing for an open (generative) web

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading. The article covers … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, Google, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments

ogg theora encoder improvements

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Since we’ve announced ogg theora support for the next version of Firefox I thought it might be worth it to point out that there has been a lot of recent work to improve the state of the theora video encoder. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, GNOME, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments

two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and canvas for IE

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Two cool things coming out at the summit today. First, Mozilla is committing to include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be Firefox 3.1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 47 Comments