Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues
My last post described, what Google's decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs. It's been almost two weeks now since Google made that ...
Encoding.com Offers HTML5 Preset Options for Ogg Theora, WebM VP8 on H.264
Encoding.com, one of the coolest places to do quick transcoding of video online, or online video for that matter, have just announced several new presets aimed at the HTML5 video market. This should make things easier for everyone using the service and wanting to support HTMl5 and the mess that is the codec situation at ...
The WebM VP8 BandWagon Rolls On - Who's In and Who's Not
Google announced the would open VP8 up as WebM, an open source video codec in a Matroska package with Ogg Vorbis as the audio encoder. So I thought it would be good to have a news round up of who's in, who's out and what Apple thinks (we all know that without a 500-page letter ...
The Death of H.264 In HTML5? Google Opens WebM and VP8
Google met our expectations today and announced that it's On2 Technologies VP8 video codec is now open source. It's supposed to outperform Ogg Theora and will be completely patent-free.
The "Reel" Deal With HTML5 Video - Not Quite There Yet
Online video is an exciting field to work in. As creator of the JW Player, I'm privileged to be at the forefront of the industry. Every week, our team receives thousands of emails from web developers regarding various bug reports, product feature requests and general thoughts about the online video space. In these emails, we've ...
HTML5's Dark Horse Video Codec, ON2 VP8 From Google
While Google didn't make the VP8 video codec, they did purchase it recently and now, they're announcing [allegedly] that it will be Open Source. What's this mean for HTML 5? It might finally have found a winner of the codec race and a savior, in Google. Go figure.
A Baker's Dozen List of "HTML5" Video Encoding Tools
These aren't really HTML5 video encoders but they do support the two currently competing encoding/compression formats - H.264 MP4 and Ogg Theora. With that in mind it means you could use them to encode your video to formats that work with the HTML 5 video tag. I have broken this list down into one, the other ...
My Theora On H(TML5).264 Support
Microsoft showed off what some are calling the killer app (a lame term really), Internet Explorer 9. It's got HTML 5 support (to what extent remains to be seen) and MP3, MP4 and H.264 support built in. That could be enough to push the industry towards using H.264 instead of an actual free codec.
Is Ogg Theora The Savior of Online Video?
Ogg Theora, the magical, mystical, savior of the online video movement? Tapped to be part of the Open Video Standards and set to take its position at center stage in the push for widespread online video acceptance, but is it all it can be and is it all that we need?
Dailymotion Supports Open Video Formats
Dailymotion, you know, the video entertainment site where you can share your videos on pretty much almost any topic, is now accepting Open Video formats and HTML tags. Thanks to Mozilla the site will now support Ogg video files and is the first major video site to incorporate the HTML video tags that will be ...
Mozilla Grants $100K To Develop Open Source Online Video Platform
The Mozilla Foundation is trying to open one of the last proprietary parts of the Web: Video standards. The group behind the Firefox browser announced that it is giving a $100,000 grant, by way of the Wikimedia Foundation , to help develop an open-source standard for Internet video. Mozilla is backing a video format called ...
