On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > FYI :) Pretty exciting and cool indeed, IMO :)
Indeed. I'm really glad they got past the patent FUD wrt to theora to make this happpen. One of my post dc8 plans is to set up a server with mdale's metavid stuff as a demo of what can be done with content from DC and other confs I have stores of video data from. Which reminds me, I want to capture cmml of the irc channels for later muxing into the ogg files. -Eric Rz. > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox > Date: Thursday 31 July 2008 12:52 > From: "Planet Xiph: silvia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What a day for great news! > > [Chris Blizzard][1] and [Chris Double][2] of Mozilla have just announced that > native [Ogg Theora and Vorbis][3] support is now available in the trunk of > Firefox's codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by > default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on > any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the > box. > > This is exciting in more than one way. > > First of all: it is a browser implementation of the new HTML5 video tag > currently in the process of standardisation. Opera is the only other browser > that has support for the video tag also using Ogg Theora as the baseline > codec, but [Opera's support is in an experimental branch][4], while Firefox > will be the first to have native support. > > The choice to include Ogg Theora natively is a huge step forward on Mozilla's > behalf considering the [submarine][5] [patent][6] [debate][7] that has been > raging around this codec ever since it was removed from the HTML5 > specification as baseline codec. So, maybe the Mozilla lawyers believe the > risk of this threat is negligible and if they have, other browser vendors > may follow. > > This is a big day for open media technology and a big day for the future of > video on the Web. > > It is important because the availability of free and unencumbered video and > audio codecs that are natively supported on the Web will make a huge > difference in progressing the capabilities of video on the Web. As an > example, look at the efforts of [Annodex][8], where we are creating video > webs through a video format with embedded hyperlinks and annotations. To > make this feasible, you need a standard and open format for the time-aligned > hyperlinks and annotations, which will only work with a flexible open video > format. This is just an example: open captioning and karaoke formats, open > overlay formats and many other extensions to video formats will now be > feasible. The golden age of online video is starting. > > [ > Michael Dale][9]'s [metavid][10] project is giving us a taste of this future. > Video can be searched on time-aligned annotations and only the relevant > video segment will be retrieved. Video segments can be addressed by > [temporal hyperlinks][11] and recombined easily into new mash-ups simply > through the creation of a list of temporal hyperlinks. How powerful this > will be when we do it across sites! This takes video into a completely new > dimension. > > Now, let's step back again from the future to the current exciting news. I am > particularly proud of the input that Annodex people have made to this > development - code from people like Conrad Parker, Andre Pang, Zen Kavanagh, > Shane Stephens, and many others. > > Chris Double from Mozilla has been implementing the Firefox Ogg Theora > support for more than a year and is using Shane Stephens' [liboggplay][12] > library, which was originally developed by [CSIRO][13] and is in the [code > repository][14] of the [Annodex Association][15]. liboggplay requires > libraries from [Xiph.org][16] (libogg, libvorbis, libtheora) and from > [Annodex][8] ([liboggz][17] and [libfishsound][18]) to work. All of this has > to work across operating system platforms. > > It is an enormous achievement and I congratulate the open media technology > community on this big success. > > [1]: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 > [2]: > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed > .html [3]: > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/20a2f518b07d5896d9392311 > b712540b101b53ec [4]: http://ajaxian.com/archives/opera-element-proposal > [5]: > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/12/video-element-and-ogg-theora.html [6]: > http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/12/11/the-attack-against-ogg-theora-or-how > -i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-proprietary-web/ [7]: > http://blog.gingertech.net/2007/12/13/about-baseline-video-codecs-and-html5/ > [8]: http://annodex.net/ > [9]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/07/30/native-theora-for-firefox-31/ > [10]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/ > [11]: http://annodex.net/node/69 > [12]: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggPlay > [13]: http://ict.csiro.au/ > [14]: http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/ > [15]: http://annodex.org/ > [16]: http://www.xiph.org/ > [17]: http://annodex.net/software/liboggz/index.html > [18]: http://annodex.net/software/libfishsound/index.html > > URL: > http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/native-ogg-theora-support-in-firefox/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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