I noticed that the videos from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit are now online, and thought I’d have a play with the new embedded HTML5 video stuff in Firefox 3.5.
Rather than view all the videos by downloading them individually I thought I’d make a page where I can view them all sequentially.
Here is the html I threw together. Guess it will look rubbish in anything but Firefox 3.5. Of course that’s no guarantee it will look any good in Firefox 3.5. Just, y’know, you’ll see the videos 
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Hey, you might be interested in using the sample code from here which lets you link to both ogg and mp4 versions via html5 and also provide fallback to flash based and native playback too. Each browser will simply pick the first one that it is compatible with. its pretty neat
@oldman If Canonical had provided the videos in multiple formats, yeah I would have done that
Only discovered that method when I went looking for sample html5 video code last night. It’s rather neat and I didnt realise it would make the videos work on so many platforms.
\o/ open standards
Great, but why didn’t you just link to the ubuntu server. That would safe you bandwidth
@Tim I did try that but it didn’t work. I think it’s because the ubuntu server has the wrong mime type for the ogg video. I may be wrong though.
Please don’t support H.264 in the Video tag.
There are Java, Plugin, Quicktime, download link and soon ActiveX fallbacks for Ogg Theora video so it can be viewed across the vast majority of systems. See Wikipedia for how they are doing this.
The only real benefit you get from “Video for Everyone” double encoding is iPhone support, which is ironic as it is Apple and their iPhone marketshare which has prevented Ogg Theora becoming the baseline standard in the spec.
Having content available in royalty free content formats will help to convince other manufactures (e.g. Palm Pre) to implement Ogg Theora.
“prevented Ogg Theora becoming the baseline standard in the spec”
It was wrong of w3c to have considered dictating a codec for the spec based on ‘royalty free’ anyway? It’d be like them saying that all references had to be PNG and nobody could use GIF or JPEG anymore.
Re: mobile handsets. Hardware accelerated decoding exists for h.264, it doesn’t for theora. Case closed.
I had an < img > in that last comment before the word ‘references’ btw but it got lost
I believe W3 has a charter that says all standards they produce are RF.
It’s also why any one (company or individual) contributing to the specs has to declare any patents that might affect their production.
And is the reason they have just declared they are looking for prior art relating to an Apple patent that covers Widgets – if they didnt do this, it may encourage more participants to patent chunks of spec to gain leverage…
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