<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">The <video> tag *specifically was* conceived to render video without<br>
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proprietary plugins. Aside from being bad from their license alone,<br>
proprietary video playback plugins are also technologically inferior,<br>
and video rendering exemplifies that. Even Free video playback<br>
plugins are inferior to native rendering for performance reasons.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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With <video> the browser itself will render video, like it does pngs,<br>
and text. Another great advantage is the video playback is exposed<br>
via the DOM, and can be CSS-ified, and interacted with dynamically<br>
using javascript.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Aye. And the last I heard they were still discussing what codecs to employ and what standards they should use. So I would guess that if browsers do support it they are attempting to beat the curve ;) </div>
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Here is a video of some of the magic this makes possible:<br>
<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/video_svg_demo.ogg" target="_blank">http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/video_svg_demo.ogg</a><br>
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You can download Firefox 3.1, Alpha 1 from:<br>
<a href="http://download.mozilla.org/?product=shiretoko-alpha1&os=linux&lang=en-US" target="_blank">http://download.mozilla.org/?product=shiretoko-alpha1&os=linux&lang=en-US</a><br>
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And demo video playback in your browser by visiting this url in it:<br>
<a href="http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/demos/arctic_giant.html" target="_blank">http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/demos/arctic_giant.html</a><br>
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For some reason, that demo site appeared to work properly on my<br>
machine which is not yet using FF3.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux<br>
x86_64; en-US; rv:<a href="http://1.9.0.1" target="_blank">1.9.0.1</a>) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9<br>
Firefox/3.0.1)<br>
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The actual tag that corresponds to the video is:<br>
<video src="arctic_giant.ogg" width="512" height="385" controls="true"></video><br>
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So I guess it is also already supported in FireFox.<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Awesome! I didn't know FF supported it yet. Are you sure that FF isn't launching a 3rd party app, like Luke suggested? If it truly is being rendered by the browser and not a proprietary plugin (even if it IS MPlayer :-P) then that's awesome.<br>
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