Today I was playing with Ogg video (Theora) and the new HTML 5 video element which is supported in the Firefox 3.1 beta. This is a short screencast showing Ogg video playing in the new Firefox and the simplicity of using the video element. This video is 1280 x 800 so be sure to click the fullscreen button to see the details.
There is an Ogg version embeded after the jump. (Get the Firefox 3.1 beta)
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Excellent illustration of the advantages of HTML5! One quick correction that the Ogg video filename extensions should actually be *.OGV, according to the official specification.
I could not agree more with you: “How cool… when adding a video to a page is as easy as sticking an image in there.” I am presently using the Firefox 3.1 beta 3, and it is quite stable and usable. Getting to test out the new Canvas and HTML5 multimedia elements, too.
Should definitely prove fun to play with. I wonder if Apple stalling on Flash integration on the iPhone is with hope of HTML 5 hackery… ???
Yes Yes Yes!!!! It will be cool.
Too bad most people don’t upgrade their browsers. We still have to support IE6 (which came out in 2001), even though it was replaced by IE7 in 2006.
I expect years of still having to support older video techniques on most websites. We’ll get to use html5′v video tag exclusively in like 2015.
Josh: Safari 4 already recognizes the tag. BUT since Quicktime doesn’t have the Ogg codec pre-installed, it’s basically a FAIL.
Verdi: Check out this screencast by Chris Blizzard of Mozilla: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1173 He demonstrates how this open standard allows someone to make a bookmarklet, which puts any Ogg video into a new player. Totally dynamic. I think we’re just scraping the surface here.
so excited about this
it’s about time
anyone interested in this (esp creators)
come to the Open Video Conference in June
http://openvideoconference.org/
we need creators to talk to the developers about what they want!
Thanks for sharing this.
It was a piece of cake putting this together.
http://www.accessfirefox.org/Embedded-OGG-Test.html
Ok I’m totally obsessed with all of this now. More experiments coming!
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