Bluish CoderProgramming Languages, Martial Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.Theora Video Backend for Firefox Landed- July 30, 2008 It was announced at the Firefix Plus summit today that Firefox will include native Theora and Vorbis support for the HTML 5 media elements. So <video and <audio will support those codecs built into Firefox itself. Chris Blizzard posted about this earlier.The backend has been committed to the main Mozilla source code and is enabled by default. You can download nightly builds and test it out. An example of a live site that uses <video is the Wikimedia video archive.This original commit...http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed.html Video Bling- July 9, 2008 Robert O'Callahan has been posting about his 'bling branch' which contains some very nice effects. See his blog posts for more detail:FunSVG Paint Servers for HTMLUsing Arbitary Elements as Paint ServersAs soon as I saw these I had to try the effects with a playing video. The video patches apply fine to the svg-integration branch.The screencast below is from this special build, displaying a video played using <video. There is a reflection below it using the tricks from Robert's posts....http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/video-bling.html The Video and Audio element patch has landed- July 9, 2008 The patches in bug 382267 to add support for the WHATWG video and audio elements have been applied to the Firefox mozilla-central repository.This means you can get the source for Firefox and build it with support for <video and <audio by using the configure flag '--enable-media'. Currently the media support is disabled by default so it won't appear in the nightly builds. At some point this will be changed and it will be enabled by default.The patch that has landed does not yet include a...http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/video-and-audio-element-patch-has.html |