Category Archives: Open Web

another fantastic open video demo

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

This is essentially a re-post of what both Tristan and Paul wrote up, but I thought it was worth re-posting because it’s that good. If you have Firefox 3.1b3 you can try the demo here.

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 Comments

bringing accelerated 3D to the web

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ See Vlad's post on this topic, Arun's post in the Mozilla standards blog and the official Mozilla blog post. ] Today Mozilla and the Khronos group announced that Mozilla will be leading an initiative to bring accelerated 3D to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Web, OpenGL, Web Standards | 51 Comments

the open video conference – june 19-20 in NYC

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Events, Freedom, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 3 Comments

open web video screencast #3 – creating your own player

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Chris Double posted about this but I thought it might be worth it to put together a simple video screencast of what this actually looked like in practice. It’s a damn neat idea and opens up all kinds of possibilities. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 17 Comments

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 →

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video tag and planet software

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

A lot of people read blogs on open source projects via their respective planets.  For example, I’m on both planet.mozilla.org and planet.gnome.org.  You can either read content directly using your browser or you can read the rss feed for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Web, RSS, Video, Web Standards | 6 Comments

march 6: open web / mozcamp event in the netherlands

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

On March 6th Tristan Nitot and Paul Rouget will be helping to host a MozCamp event in Utrecht in the Netherlands.  Taken directly from his blog post: What is it about? It’s an event for people passionate about the open … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Europe, Evangelism, Events, Mozilla, Open Web | 2 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