Video Articles
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Popcorn Maker 1.0 released – how it works
This week Mozilla is in London at the Mozilla Festival 2012. A year ago at last year’s Festival, we released Popcorn.js 1.0, and with it a way for filmmakers, journalists, artists, and bloggers to integrate audio and video into web experiences. Popcorn has since become one of the most popular ways to build time-based media […]
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Into the Depths: The Technical Details Behind AV1
AV1, the next generation royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC. The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license. In this video presentation, Mozilla's Nathan Egge dives deep into the technical details of the codec and its evolution.
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Videos and Firefox OS
Before HTML5 Those were dark times Harry, dark times – Rubeus Hagrid Before HTML5, displaying video on the Web required browser plugins and Flash. Luckily, Firefox OS supports HTML5 video so we don’t need to support these older formats. Video support on the Web Even though modern browsers support HTML5, the video formats they support […]
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Inside the Party Bus: Building a Web App with Multiple Live Video Streams + Interactive Graphics
Gearcloud Labs is exploring the use of open technologies to build new kinds of shared video experiences. Party Bus is a demo app that mixes multiple live video streams together with interactive graphics and synchronized audio. We built it using a combination of node.js, WebSockets, WebRTC, WebGL, and Web Audio. This article shares a few […]
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Report from San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days with US Ignite
This past weekend, the Internet Archive played host to a crew of futurist hackers for the San Francisco Gigabit Hack Days. The two-day event, organized by Mozilla and the City of San Francisco, was a space for hackers and civic innovators to do some experiments around the potential of community fiber and gigabit networks. Kick-off […]
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Simple HTML5 video encoding with vid.ly – interview, first impressions and invite code
Today encoding.com released a new service called vid.ly which is not yet another URL shortener, but actually a very impressive service for converting video. One of the biggest annoyance of using HTML5 video is to convert your movie to various formats supported by different browsers. Vid.ly does this job for you: it converts the video […]
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Zooming and rotating for video in HTML5 and CSS3
The source of the code examples in this post is available on GitHub and you can see the demo in action. There are dozens of video players that allow you to do all the normal things with videos: play, pause, jump to a certain time and so on. More advanced ones also allow you to […]
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Make your Firefox OS app feel alive with video and audio
Firefox OS applications aren’t just about text: there is no better way to make your app feel alive than adding some videos or audio to it. Let’s explore different ways we can use as developers to enhance our mobile masterpiece. Audio and video HTML tags Since we are talking about HTML, it makes total sense […]
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FoxIE – a video training series on web standards with Microsoft
About a month ago Chris Heilmann of Mozilla went to Miami, Florida to shoot a series of training videos with Rey Bango of Microsoft. Now these videos are available on Microsoft’s Channel9 as the FoxIE training series. In a very off-the-cuff discussion format between Rey and Chris we covered a few topics: Introducing FoxIE has […]
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creating pop art with html5 video
This post is by Felipe Gomez, a long-time Mozilla contributor and really awesome dude. Felipe attends school in Brazil. This demo contains another interesting effect that can be done with the HTML5 elements present in Firefox 3.5. What better way to create a cool effect than mixing the open web with pop art? This demo […]