Video Articles
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an update on open video codecs and quality
Two days ago we posted a comparison by Greg Maxwell of low and medium resolution YouTube videos vs. Theora counterparts at the same bit rates. The result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and more or less the same at the slightly higher bit rate. The conclusion […]
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Video, Mobile, and the Open Web
[Also posted at brendaneich.com.] I wrote The Open Web and Its Adversaries just over five years ago, based on the first SXSW Browser Wars panel (we just had our fifth, it was great — thanks to all who came). Some history The little slideshow I presented is in part quaint. WPF/E and Adobe Apollo, remember […]
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Firefox, YouTube and WebM
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit over Theora and is […]
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3D transforms in Firefox 3.5 – the isocube
This demo was created by Zachary Johnson, a Minneapolis, MN based web developer who has also authored a jQuery plugin for animated “3D” rotation. I’d like to show an example of a visual effect that can be accomplished using the new -moz-transform CSS transformation property that is available in the Firefox 3.5 browser. I was […]
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html5 video fallbacks with markup
In a previous post on this blog we talked about using JavaScript to create video elements on the fly. While that was a good use case for the Mozilla’s support site in this post we offer another set of methods that will likely find more use on the web. In fact you can see it […]
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getUserMedia is ready to roll!
We blogged about some of our WebRTC efforts back in April. Today we have an exciting update for you on that front: getUserMedia has landed on mozilla-central! This means you will be able to use the API on the latest Nightly versions of Firefox, and it will eventually make its way to a release build. […]
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theora 1.1 is released – what you should know
Less than a year after the release of Theora 1.0, the wonderful people at Xiph have released Theora 1.1. The 1.1 release is a software-only release of the Theora encoder and decoder. It does not include any changes to the Theora format. Existing Theora videos should continue to play with the new decoder and the […]
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using HTML5 video with fallbacks to other formats
The Mozilla Support Project and support.mozilla.com (SUMO for short) is an open and volunteer powered community that helps over 3 million Firefox users a week get support and help with their favorite browser. The Firefox support community maintains a knowledge base with articles in over 30 languages and works directly with users through our support […]
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and we want to make sure web developers are aware of this new audio autoplay blocking default. With the release of Firefox 66, now in Firefox Beta/Developer Edition, the browser will block audible audio and video, and will allow a site to play audio or video aloud via the
HTMLMediaElement
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Firefox Development Highlights – H.264 & MP3 support on Windows, scoped stylesheets + more
Time for the first look this year into the latest developments with Firefox. This is part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series, and most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). H.264 & MP3 support on Windows Firefox for Android and Firefox OS already support H.264 and […]