HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
News HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Hickson said that Apple will not implement Ogg Theora for Quicktime video due to "lack of hardware...
[July 3, 2009, 17:08]
Mozilla gives £70k grant for open-source video
News Theora is a lossy video compression layer used in Ogg, which is an open container format used for streaming and multimedia. Blizzard reiterated that the next version of Firefox, version 3.1, would include Ogg support using the open-source Theora...
[January 28, 2009, 15:15]
Firefox gets multimedia plugin
News Currently the software only supports playback of media webs that are encoded using the open source Ogg Theora (for video) and Ogg Vorbis (for audio) codecs. In addition, according to Pfeiffer, while Theora does not have as high a compression ration...
[February 11, 2005, 8:40]
Google Chrome adds HTML video support
News Firefox supports the Ogg Theora format for video (and the Ogg Vorbis format for the related HTML 5 audio tag), for example, and that is the format DailyMotion is using. Papakipos said Chrome will support H.264 video and AAC audio as well as Ogg...
[May 29, 2009, 9:35]
How stupid the IT-managers in EU
Talkback It should NOT BE SO DIFFICULT to provide Ogg/Theora video format that can be played on ALL operating systems ! How stupid the IT-managers in EU's headquarters are? It's impossible to trust the EU-bureaucrats because they hide behind proprietary...
[January 8, 2007, 12:22]
Xiph QuickTime Components
Downloads Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g.playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie.
[June 15, 2009, 3:24]
Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta
News Expected new features in Firefox 3.1 include native support for the open-source Ogg Vorbis audio codec and the Ogg Theora video codec, according to a draft list posted to the wiki. Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a...
[August 6, 2008, 17:55]
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
News But in video, Mozilla has built-in support for Ogg Theora, while Safari and Chrome are inclined toward the H.264 standard. Other browsers revert to Flash, so the site still functions without Ogg support, but that is status quo for the web.
[June 18, 2009, 12:59]
RZ Mobile Converter
Downloads Convert any video andio files (Avi, MP4, Flv, 3GP, MPG (Mpeg 1, 2), TS, M2TS, WMV, MKV, RM, RMVB, OGG (Theora, Vorbis), Wma, MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3) to play on any Mobile/Portable device including iPod Video, iPod video nano, iPod classic, iPod touch...
[February 13, 2009, 10:42]
Firefox 3.5 released for download
News These allow open-standard Ogg Theora video to run within the browser without the need for proprietary rich media players such as Flash or Silverlight. Mozilla has released a major revamp to Firefox, doubling the browser's speed and introducing...
[June 30, 2009, 17:01]
Firefox 3.5: a first look review
Reviews However, embedded ICC profiles, and support for Ogg Vorbis and Theora video and audio means that image colours will look better and closer to how they were intended, and no plug-in will be required for properly-encoded multimedia.
[July 1, 2009, 10:25]
