Video Articles
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Theora on N900
This is a re-post from Matthew Gregan’s personal weblog on the work that he’s been doing to bring HTML5 open video to mobile devices. Google recently announced funding for some work to bring Theora to ARM devices via a CPU-driven code path. Mozilla has been funding similar work over the last year or so to […]
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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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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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experimenting with HTML5 video at the BBC
The BBC has a post up describing an experiment that they have put together that uses HTML5 video that works in Firefox 3.5 and Safari. The demo uses jQuery and drives a simple carousel that shows the current chapter as the video plays. It also shows subtitles as the video plays. One really great, and […]
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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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arun talks about html5, fonts and india
Recently Arun Ranganathan, one of the members of the Mozilla Evangelism team, created a video for MozCamp Mumbai. It’s about 20 minutes long and he covers a huge number of topics: the new @font-face CSS property and how it affects the ability for people to receive properly localized content, the differences between the various standards […]
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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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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 […]
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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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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.