Video Articles
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HTML5 video 'buffered' property available in Firefox 4
Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data.
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App basics for Firefox OS – a screencast series to get you started
Over the next few days we’ll release a series of screencasts explaining how to start your first Open Web App and develop for Firefox OS. Each of the screencasts is terse enough to watch in a short break and the whole series should not take you more than an hour of your time. The series […]
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video – more than just a tag
This article is written by Paul Rouget, Mozilla contributor and purveyor of extraordinary Open Web demos. Starting with Firefox 3.5, you can embed a video in a web page like an image. This means video is now a part of the document, and finally, a first class citizen of the Open Web. Like all other […]
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Building Interactive HTML5 Videos
The HTML5 <video> element makes embedding videos into your site as easy as embedding images. And since all major browsers support <video> since 2011, it’s also the most reliable way to get your moving pictures seen by people. A more recent addition to the HTML5 family is the <track> element. It’s a sub-element of <video>, […]
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WebRTC efforts underway at Mozilla!
Last week, a small team from Mozilla attended IETF 83 in Paris, and we showed an early demo of a simple video call between two BrowserID-authenticated parties in a special build of Firefox with WebRTC support. It is still very early days for WebRTC integration in Firefox, but we’re really excited to show you something […]
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Firefox OS Security: Part 1 – The Web Security Model
When presenting Firefox OS to people, security is a big topic. Can an operating system built on web technologies be secure? What has Mozilla built in to avoid drive-by downloads and malware? In this two part video series Christian Heilmann (@codepo8), principal evangelist of Mozilla, talks to Michael Coates (@_mwc), chair of @OWASP Board about […]
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Google and MPEG LA Agree, Free VP8
Today Google and the MPEG LA jointly announced a licensing agreement with 11 companies to protect all users of the VP8 video codec. With the agreement in place, developers can make great sites with WebM without fear of legal retribution. As a quick refresher, MPEG LA licenses the patents needed for many common, proprietary video […]
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Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio
This is a re-post of an important post from David Humphrey who has been doing a lot of experiments on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform and doing experiments with multi-touch, sound, video, WebGL and all sorts of other goodies. It’s worth going through all of the demos below. You’ll find some stuff that will amaze […]
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open video codecs discussion at Mozilla
On Tuesday, July 28th, 2009, Mozilla hosted a brownbag and lunch discussion with Davis Freeberg and Dan Miller on the subject of open video codecs. Dan Miller is one of the founders of On2 and is largely responsible for the free release of VP3, which is the basis for the Theora codec. Davis Freeberg hosts […]
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS streams. To make playback possible while the AV1 bitstream is still being finalized, we just need to ensure that the encoder and decoder use the same version of the bitstream. Bitmovin and Mozilla agreed on a simple, but for the time being useful, codec string, to ensure compatibility - check out the playback demo to see for yourself.