Video Articles
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autobuffering video in Firefox
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 autobuffer by default, but he incorrectly says that Firefox does […]
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How we built Picture-in-Picture in Firefox Desktop with more control over video
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's been shaped by your feedback and inputs, with user agency as a core principle of our design and development.
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connecting html5 video to the web
This is a screencast of a demo that I gave at the open video conference in NYC on June 19th, 2009. The demo itself was created by the ever wonderful Paul Rouget. Download .ogv or .mp4 version. A version hosted on blip.tv.
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Firefox OS for developers – the platform HTML5 deserves
Over the next few weeks we will publish a series of short videos here that explain what Firefox OS means for developers and how you can be part of the revolution it brings to the world. In various conversations we’ve repeatedly heard from developers that they view Firefox OS as simply a third player in […]
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open video codecs and quality
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 the same codecs that Mozilla, Wikipedia and others have been […]
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H.264 video in Firefox for Android
Firefox for Android has expanded its HTML5 video capabilities to include H.264 video playback. Web developers have been using Adobe Flash to play H.264 video on Firefox for Android, but Adobe no longer supports Flash for Android. Mozilla needed a new solution, so Firefox now uses Android’s “Stagefright” library to access hardware video decoders. The […]
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Project Silk
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang’s personal blog. For the past few months, I’ve been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across the browser. Very much like Project Butter for Android, part of it is finally live on Firefox OS. Silk does three things: Align Painting with hardware […]
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Testing Picture-in-Picture for videos in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition
Firefox has an experimental new UI feature in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition - and Firefox engineers are looking for feedback on the implementation. Picture in Picture in the browser lets you pop a video out from where it’s being played into a special kind of window that’s always on top. Then you can move that window around or resize it however you need! Let us know what you think.
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the tristan washing machine
This is another demo from Paul Rouget. It’s a very simple demonstration of what you can do when you combine video, SVG and some fun transformations. View the Demo in Firefox 3.5 This puts a HTML5-based <video> element into an SVG document like so: Lots of code and many attributes removed for clarity. Please view […]
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AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
This post imagines a dystopian future where only the rich can stream video to their homes, and the democratizing forces of the internet have crumbled under corruption and greed. The author reports back from a troubled future in the late 2020s that is wholly fictitious. The open video codec AV1 is wholly real.