1. an update on open video codecs and quality

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Video • 170 comments

    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 Read more…

  2. Video, Mobile, and the Open Web

    • by Brendan Eich • Featured Article, Firefox, Video • 139 comments

    [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 Read more…

  3. Firefox, YouTube and WebM

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Featured Article, Firefox 4, HTML5, Standards, Video • 96 comments

    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 Read more…

  4. 3D transforms in Firefox 3.5 – the isocube

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, CSS, Demo, Firefox 3.5, Video • 51 comments

  5. html5 video fallbacks with markup

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, Demo, Firefox 3.5, Video • 50 comments

  6. theora 1.1 is released – what you should know

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Video • 39 comments

    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 Read more…

  7. using HTML5 video with fallbacks to other formats

    • by Laura Thomson • 35 Days, Demo, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript, Video • 37 comments

  8. autobuffering video in Firefox

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Firefox, Standards, Video • 30 comments

    John Gruber recently wrote up an article titled Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in the Browsers Which Support It He’s mostly upset that browsers don’t respect the autobuffer attribute. Or, really, that browsers autobuffer by default. Safari and Chrome do apparently Read more…

  9. connecting html5 video to the web

    • by Christopher Blizzard • 35 Days, Canvas, Demo, Firefox 3.5, JavaScript, TraceMonkey, Video, XMLHttpRequest • 29 comments

  10. open video codecs and quality

    • by Christopher Blizzard • Audio, Firefox 3.5, Video • 27 comments

    This is a re-post (with permission) of a post that Greg Maxwell wrote in response to a comment by Chris DiBona from Google on a whatwg mailing list. The codecs being discussed are the same ones we’ll be including in Firefox 3.5 and are also Read more…