Last week, I visited both Buffalo and Toronto. Since Buffalo looks like Pittsburgh and [Toronto looks like New York] (http://media.marteydodoo.com/images/20090807-1.jpg "Photo taken somewhere along Yonge St. [JPG]"), I decided to showcase Niagara Falls (which looks like nothing except Victoria or Iguazu).
Despite the fact that my camera takes video in AVI format, I have transcoded it to Ogg, to take advantage of HTML 5's <video> tag.
If you using Firefox 3.5, a development version of Google Chrome, or a preview build of Opera with video enabled (which will be difficult to find), you should be able to see it. Since Apple opposes using Ogg in <video>, it will not work in Safari. <video> is not even supported in Internet Explorer.
Other than browser chauvinism, why do it? Besides the fact that almost 20% of this website visitors in the last 30 days used Firefox 3.5 (5% lower than the number of people using Internet Explorer), I think open video is important. Adobe Flash is currently the defacto standard, but has serious performance. These are large concerns, and by using a web browser made by Apple or Microsoft, you are not helping.
Resources and More Reading:
- DirectShow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC: Play the Ogg Theora video linked in this post in Windows Media Player.
- Xiph QuickTime components: Play the Ogg Theora video linked in this post in QuickTime.
- VLC media player: Play everything everywhere. Seriously. Even your (jailbroken) iPhone.
- Ogg controversy: Information about the attempt to get the HTML 5 standard to recommend Ogg for use with
<audio>and<video>. - Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate: In which we learn Apple does not support Ogg in HTML 5 because of the money it spent adding H.264 hardware acceleration to its Macs, iPhones, and iPods while Google is concerned about YouTube bandwidth.