Video tag in Firefox, an update

Spotted by Pierre Huyghebaert on Kein.org

It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: “I have great news” he screamed. “Firefox 3.1 will support OGG Theora!”

In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video encoding suite. It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1.

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You can also follow the works done on the implementation here, here and here

Posted on: Monday, August 25, 2008 by: in category: Copyrights and licenses, News, Patents