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Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard

Posted by kdawson on from the nothing-flashy dept.

bmullan writes "Dailymotion, one of the world's largest video sites, announced support for Open Video. They've put out a press release, a blog post on the new Open Video site, and an HTML 5 demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. (You can get the Firefox 3.5 beta here.) Dailymotion is automatically transcoding all of the content that their users create, and expect to have around 300,000 videos in the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats."

3 of 281 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Other sites with support exist as well by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It would be nice if some big sites like youtube get rid of flash too, but I'm not holding my breath.

    No it wouldn't be nice. The h.264 codec that is used to stream their content is far and away better than that Theora garbage format.

  2. Re:Yeah, screw you too by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because they still don't have support for the video tag yet. The GP is full of shit to claim that Opera has support for it yet.

  3. Re:Linux? by sxpert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    apple is a bunch of loonies that prefer others pay them patent licenses to *them*..
    oh. it seems apple has patents related to x264 in the form of the quicktime multiplex format... how practical...