Comments on: Firefox to Support Open Video Format in Next Release

By: jason

jason — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:46:26 +0000

I think this is such good news to hear and now Adobe is rolling this out - whoa! cheap area rugs

By: Geek

Geek — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:03:33 +0000

Great news!

Finally Adobe's GLOBAL CONTROL over web video is over !!!

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:10:01 +0000

I think that this is great news. I like open video format

By: xyzmjf

xyzmjf — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:04:57 +0000

One needs to persuade the BBC news organisation in the UK to support and (most importantly) use ogg theora. See news.bbc.co.uk.

By: פיירפוקס בעקבות אופרה תומכים בקוד פתוח לסרטים Ogg | גוגל-ספרה

פיירפוקס בעקבות אופרה תומכים בקוד פתוח לסרטים Ogg | גוגל-ספרה — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:54:55 +0000

[...] גורמים יודעי דבר מדווחים כי דפדפן הקוד הפתוח המוביל, פיירפוקס, שהצליח לקבוע שיא גינס ביום השקת גרסה 3, מתכונן להתחיל לתמוך בקידוד המדיה החינמי Theora מבית Ogg כבר בגרסה 3.1 אם לא יווצרו עכובים בלתי צפויים. [...]

By: Dean Jansen

Dean Jansen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:58:41 +0000

I can’t say what Archive will do — I’ve been trying to convince them to add basic RSS feeds to users, categories, searches, etc. (and haven’t had any luck yet).

I would download the nightly version of Firefox and start tinkering (check the link to Chris Blizzard’s post for info on the nightly).

Check out this page: http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:42:36 +0000

This is great news.

Any ideas on how sites should think about supporting this?

For example, using our sweet Internet Archive + Drupal integration, we can easily create a page with Flash player + mp4 download link like so:
http://www.wccatv.com/node/13165

Assuming the Archive takes the bull by the horns and derives theora files for everything, what’s an elegant way to offer people the option of an in-browser theora player, assuming this won’t work for most users? (At least not anytime soon.)