Wed 27 May 2009
Since Mozilla decided to back ogg Vorbis and Theora as a baseline standard, Monty committed to leading the charge for a better encoder, Edward Hervey has been kicking butt and taking names with PiTiVi and now Blizzard has blogged about Dailymotion using open codecs, everything seems to be falling nicely into place. One can’t help but admire building momentum.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
This is awesome
May 27th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I think the world is sick of Adobe Flash. I know I am.
With vorbis, theora, and JIT’ed javascript, I see a bright future for the web. Once we no longer depend on x86 ISA chips, maybe we’ll even have competition in microprocessors again someday!
May 28th, 2009 at 12:50 am
I have been keeping an eye on Theroa 1.1… the improvements it has made are impressive to say the least. I think that once it hits beta stage, it’s going to surprise a few people.
After looking at Fx3.5, I think I am going to enjoy this… no hanging, quick pick-up of stream, VERY smooth streaming. This is going to spoil me.
I am a little curious that Google’s Youtube hasn’t jumped into this boat. It would be quite the money incentive… but then that is them.
May 28th, 2009 at 2:23 am
You forgot to mention that all those actors are all going to be present at the OpenVideoConference in NYC June 19-20… it’s gonna rock !
May 28th, 2009 at 2:27 am
At last
…I hope in the last piece YouTube using Ogg Vorbis/Theora, I can’t wait for Firefox 3.5 
!
May 28th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Rumour has it even YouTube are at least experimenting with it HTML5 video: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/youtube_html5/ .
May 28th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
@Anon:
The only problem is because of Apple and Nokia Ogg Theora is not part of the HTML 5 spec. Unless Google ships Chrome with Theora built in this just means YouTube will eventually ditch Flash. Who knows what their delivery format will be.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
@Edward:
You going to be there? I just registered. I’ll blog about it tomorrow.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Several journalists are reporting that Chrome will support both H.264/AAC and Ogg Theora/Vorbis, quoting Matthew Papakipos (Engineering Director from Google) at Google’s IO event.
While not total victory, to be honest, it’s better than I expected.