(http://lwn.net/Articles/292939/)
Okay, no more excuses not to use Ogg Vorbis and Theora...};-) ===== Firefox to support Theora video By Jake Edge August 6, 2008 Video in the browser, at least for Linux, has always resorted to somewhat clunky solutions—Flash plug-ins or external programs—but that is likely to change in Firefox 3.1. Recent commits to the Firefox development tree have added support for the HTML 5 <video> and <audio> tags as well as native Ogg Vorbis and Theora support. Providing multimedia support directly in a free browser, with no plug-in required, is a huge step forward both for Linux and for the royalty-free codecs. [...] There are lots of entrenched interests that would like to see Theora, Vorbis, Dirac, and others like them disappear. They are quite happy with the current state of affairs. For the most part, though, users are not. Even on "well supported" platforms, video—and to a lesser extent audio—is a confusing jumble of plug-ins and formats that make it somewhat painful to use. Flash and Silverlight are supposed to "solve" these problems, but they do it in a not-quite-free way that still requires plug-ins. If web users start to find it easier to use the video formats embedded in their browser, and content producers take notice, it could completely change video on the web. ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
