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.
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This is awesome
Comment by Michael "!!!!!!!!" Howell — May 27, 2009 @ 7:05 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!
Comment by ethana2 — May 27, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
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.
Comment by Duv — May 28, 2009 @ 12:50 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 !
Comment by Edward Hervey — May 28, 2009 @ 2:23 am
At last
…I hope in the last piece YouTube using Ogg Vorbis/Theora, I can’t wait for Firefox 3.5 
!
Comment by Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca — May 28, 2009 @ 2:27 am
Rumour has it even YouTube are at least experimenting with it HTML5 video: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/youtube_html5/ .
Comment by Anon — May 28, 2009 @ 2:43 am
@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.
Comment by J5 — May 28, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
@Edward:
You going to be there? I just registered. I’ll blog about it tomorrow.
Comment by J5 — May 28, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
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.
Comment by dave — May 29, 2009 @ 9:16 am