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Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox
YA_Python_dev writes "The Xiph.Org Foundation announced Monday the release of Theora 1.0.
Theora is a free/open source video codec with a small CPU footprint that offers easy portability and requires no patent royalties.
Upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera will play natively Ogg/Theora videos with the new HTML5 element <video src="file.ogv"></video>, and ffmpeg2theora offers an easy way to create content.
Theora developers are already working on a 1.1 encoder that offers better quality/bitrate ratio, while producing streams backward-compatible with the current decoder." Adds reader logfish: "Since its bit-stream freeze in June of 2004 there have been numerous speed-ups and bug-fixes. Although Nokia claimed it to be proprietary almost a year ago, nothing has been proven. So now it's time to help it take over the internet, and finally push for video sites filled with Theora encoded vlogs, blurts and idle nonsense."
Flash doesn't just work. It [...] is not 64-bit.
The original PlayStation wasn't 64-bit either, but it beat the Nintendo 64. The point is that 64-bit isn't everything.
you seem to be laboring under the delusion that the vast majority of foss zealots are male.
who said anything about Word Press?
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia of sorts. it's not an image repository like flickr, either--people don't go to Wikipedia to search for images specifically. but that doesn't mean multimedia isn't a vital part of the site. part of the advantage of having an encyclopedic reference on the web is that you can integrate digital media like video/audio/images/etc. into the site.
and just because YouTube doesn't use Theora doesn't make it a bad codec. YouTube doesn't use XviD or H.264 either.