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Ask YouTube for Ogg support! Ask YouTube for Ogg support!
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| People are voting for Google to offer
| HTML5/Ogg video support on YouTube, in
| Google's own product ideas voting space.
|
| This piece of Ogg activism is getting some
| traffic on identi.ca and Twitter right now.
| If you haven't already, you should jump in.
|
| YouTube is, obviously, the largest source of
| videos in the world by far, so keeping
| pressure on Google to support web standards
| and free formats (over proprietary formats
| like Flash) is really important.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/youtube-ogg
G-Streamer For Google's Chrome Proposed But Denied
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| In early December a beta of Google Chrome
| for Linux was released (though Chromium
| could be built on Linux in an alpha form for
| months earlier) while just days prior was
| the first public code release of Google's
| Chromium OS. Google's Chrome web-browser has
| been quick to attract new users on Linux
| thanks to its speed and features, but some
| are having issues with this web-browser over
| its multimedia support.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkxNQ
Bumps ahead as Vimeo, YouTube respond to HTML5 video demand
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| When Google began soliciting feedback from
| users about what features they would most
| like to see in the next version of YouTube,
| the response was an overwhelmingly
| enthusiastic request for standards-based
| open video: users called for Google to
| support the HTML5 video element.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/bumps-ahead-as-vimeo-youtube-respond-to-html5-video-demand.ars
YouTube, Vimeo Ditching Flash for HTML5
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| Both YouTube and Vimeo have announced that
| they are launching HTML5-based players on
| their video streaming sites, thus booting
| out the long-standing champ of multimedia
| delivery, Adobe Flash. With recent security
| issues plaguing Adobe products, it's no
| surprise that media giants such as YouTube
| are jumping ship. What makes HTML5 special
| is that the new Web standard doesn't require
| Adobe's software to stream content to
| viewers.
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http://www.tomsguide.com/us/HTML5-YouTube-Vimeo-Adobe-Flash,news-5623.html
Thoughts on Youtube 'abandoning' Firefox and Opera
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| So the question rises: "Why is there no OGG
| support in Youtube?" Numerous people claimed
| it is because Google is afraid of submarine
| patents for the Theora video format. While
| Xiph, the foundation behind Theora claims it
| is not patent encumbered but you cannot be
| sure until it is used by the masses and it
| would be an interesting target for
| companies. It's only an interesting target
| if royalties for patents will generate
| enough income to justify legal costs. Apart
| from that there is also the mid-2009
| discussion about which format offered the
| best video quality.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/130948/index.html
Video, Freedom And Mozilla
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| [T]hey only offer video in H.264 format, and
| that is not good news for free software. A
| lot of people have noticed that Firefox
| doesn't support H.264, and apparently many
| people don't understand why, or know what
| the problems are with H.264. This is a good
| time to restate the facts and re-explain why
| Firefox does not support H.264. I'll be
| mostly recapitulating the relevant chunks of
| my talk. (Hopefully a full recording of my
| talk will become available from the LCA site
| next week.)
|
| The basic problem is simple: H.264 is
| encumbered by patents whose licensing is
| actively pursued by the MPEG-LA. If you
| distribute H.264 codecs in a jurisdiction
| where software patents are enforceable, and
| you haven't paid the MPEG-LA for a patent
| license, you are at risk of being sued.
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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_freedom_a.html
Recent:
Vote for HTML5 open video (WE DID IT!)
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| WE DID IT! Thanks everyone!!!
|
| http://productideas.appspot.com/#8/e=3d60a
|
| Official response:
|
| We've heard a lot of feedback around
| supporting HTML5 and are working hard to
| meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll
| be following up when we have more
| information. We're answering this idea
| now because there are so many similar
| HTML5 ideas and we want to give other
| ideas a chance to be seen.
|
| [...]
|
| YouTube Team
|
| Party time!
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-January/000838.html
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