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[News] Multimedia on the Web Inches a Little Closer to Standards

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floating players subtle victory for web standards

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| What all these apps which have adopted this model have in common is something 
| that will delight people who are passionate about the use of open standards 
| rather than proprietary tools: you can’t make a player float over the page 
| using pure Flash, so none of these players are 100% Flash anymore. Pure-Flash 
| in-browser playback has become a lagging edge thing.    
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http://gonze.com/blog/2009/04/02/floating-players-subtle-victory-for-web-standards/


Recent:

The argument for Xiph codecs

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| Yesterday I had a random technology developer email me with the question why
| he should use Ogg over other codecs that have a much more widespread uptake.
| Of course with “Ogg” he meant “Xiph codecs”, since a comparison of container
| formats isn’t really what people are asking for. He felt positive towards
| open codecs, but didn’t really know how to express this with reason. So I
| wrote up some arguments that can be made for open codecs.
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http://blog.gingertech.net/2009/02/16/the-argument-for-xiph-codecs/


why open video?

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| There’s one exception to this: video on the web.  Although videos are
| available on the web via sites like youtube, they don’t share the same
| democratized characteristics that have made the web vibrant and distributed.
| And it shows.  That centralization has created some interesting problems that
| have symptoms like censorship via abuse of the DMCA and an
| overly-concentrated audience on a few sites that have the resources and
| technology to host video.  I believe that problems like the ones we see with
| youtube are a symptom of the larger problem of the lack of decentralization
| and competition in video technology - very different than where the rest of
| the web is today.
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| In my mind there are two things that help drive that kind of
| decentralization:
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|     * You should be able to easily understand how something moves from a
|     computer-readable format to something that is presented to a user.  For
|     example, turning HTML into a document, turning a JPEG file into a picture
|     on the screen or using HTTP to download a file.
|     * You must be able to implement and deliver that technology without
|     requiring anyone’s permission or license.  In reality this means that it
|     should be available on a royalty-free basis and without encumbered
|     documentation.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=977


Mozilla champions Open Source Web video

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| THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION is putting its significant clout and cash behind an
| initiative to create an open video format on the Web which would let users
| watch streaming video all over the Internet without having to use a plug-in.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/649/1050649/mozilla-champions-open-source-web-video


Mozilla Goes to Bat for Open-Source Video on the Web

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/mozilla-goes-to.html


Video

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| The video element is used to embed video content in an HTML or XHTML
| document.  The video element was added as part of HTML 5.
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http://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/Video


Firefox to Support Open Video Format in Next Release

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| Chris Blizzard reports from this week’s Mozilla Summit: Firefox will natively
| support the Ogg Theora video format!
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http://internet.boredblogs.net/?p=2363


two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and canvas for IE

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492


Theora Video Backend for Firefox Landed

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| It was announced at the Firefix Plus summit today that Firefox will include
| native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So <video>
| and <audio> will support those codecs built into Firefox itself. Chris
| Blizzard posted about this earlier.
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http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed.html
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