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Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support

Posted by timothy on from the cause-for-optimism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking."

3 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Theora still lacks good creation software by heffrey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ah the joys of open source.....

  2. Re:YouTube by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    please explain

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  3. Yet another video format , just what we need by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Really , what is the point? Its not like every other video format on the planet is closed source with a fee required. MPEG2 and MPEG3 are the ISO standard and the de facto free standard for most high bandwidth video apps these days and MPEG 4 for low bandwidth, deal with it and stop re-inventing the fscking wheel just to play OSS one upmanship.