Re: Fwd: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FYI :) Pretty exciting and cool indeed, IMO :)
Indeed. I'm really glad they got past the patent FUD wrt to theora to
make this happpen.
One of my post dc8 plans is to set up a server with mdale's metavid
stuff as a demo of what can be done with content from DC and other confs
I have stores of video data from.
Which reminds me, I want to capture cmml of the irc channels for later
muxing into the ogg files.
-Eric Rz.
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> Subject: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
> Date: Thursday 31 July 2008 12:52
> From: "Planet Xiph: silvia" <bozo@dev.null.invalid>
>
> What a day for great news!
>
> [Chris Blizzard][1] and [Chris Double][2] of Mozilla have just announced that
> native [Ogg Theora and Vorbis][3] support is now available in the trunk of
> Firefox's codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by
> default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on
> any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the
> box.
>
> This is exciting in more than one way.
>
> First of all: it is a browser implementation of the new HTML5 video tag
> currently in the process of standardisation. Opera is the only other browser
> that has support for the video tag also using Ogg Theora as the baseline
> codec, but [Opera's support is in an experimental branch][4], while Firefox
> will be the first to have native support.
>
> The choice to include Ogg Theora natively is a huge step forward on Mozilla's
> behalf considering the [submarine][5] [patent][6] [debate][7] that has been
> raging around this codec ever since it was removed from the HTML5
> specification as baseline codec. So, maybe the Mozilla lawyers believe the
> risk of this threat is negligible and if they have, other browser vendors
> may follow.
>
> This is a big day for open media technology and a big day for the future of
> video on the Web.
>
> It is important because the availability of free and unencumbered video and
> audio codecs that are natively supported on the Web will make a huge
> difference in progressing the capabilities of video on the Web. As an
> example, look at the efforts of [Annodex][8], where we are creating video
> webs through a video format with embedded hyperlinks and annotations. To
> make this feasible, you need a standard and open format for the time-aligned
> hyperlinks and annotations, which will only work with a flexible open video
> format. This is just an example: open captioning and karaoke formats, open
> overlay formats and many other extensions to video formats will now be
> feasible. The golden age of online video is starting.
>
> [
> Michael Dale][9]'s [metavid][10] project is giving us a taste of this future.
> Video can be searched on time-aligned annotations and only the relevant
> video segment will be retrieved. Video segments can be addressed by
> [temporal hyperlinks][11] and recombined easily into new mash-ups simply
> through the creation of a list of temporal hyperlinks. How powerful this
> will be when we do it across sites! This takes video into a completely new
> dimension.
>
> Now, let's step back again from the future to the current exciting news. I am
> particularly proud of the input that Annodex people have made to this
> development - code from people like Conrad Parker, Andre Pang, Zen Kavanagh,
> Shane Stephens, and many others.
>
> Chris Double from Mozilla has been implementing the Firefox Ogg Theora
> support for more than a year and is using Shane Stephens' [liboggplay][12]
> library, which was originally developed by [CSIRO][13] and is in the [code
> repository][14] of the [Annodex Association][15]. liboggplay requires
> libraries from [Xiph.org][16] (libogg, libvorbis, libtheora) and from
> [Annodex][8] ([liboggz][17] and [libfishsound][18]) to work. All of this has
> to work across operating system platforms.
>
> It is an enormous achievement and I congratulate the open media technology
> community on this big success.
>
> [1]: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492
> [2]:
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed
> .html [3]:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/20a2f518b07d5896d9392311
> b712540b101b53ec [4]: http://ajaxian.com/archives/opera-element-proposal
> [5]:
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/12/video-element-and-ogg-theora.html [6]:
> http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/12/11/the-attack-against-ogg-theora-or-how
> -i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-proprietary-web/ [7]:
> http://blog.gingertech.net/2007/12/13/about-baseline-video-codecs-and-html5/
> [8]: http://annodex.net/
> [9]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/07/30/native-theora-for-firefox-31/
> [10]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/
> [11]: http://annodex.net/node/69
> [12]: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggPlay
> [13]: http://ict.csiro.au/
> [14]: http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/
> [15]: http://annodex.org/
> [16]: http://www.xiph.org/
> [17]: http://annodex.net/software/liboggz/index.html
> [18]: http://annodex.net/software/libfishsound/index.html
>
> URL:
> http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/native-ogg-theora-support-in-firefox/
>
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