Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support

An anonymous reader writes "Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking."

YouTube

[linuxrocks123]

It would be nice if YouTube supported in-browser Theora once Firefox 3.1 is released. It would also be nice if Theora were a good enough codec for that to be practical for them.

Re:amount of content

[interiot]

Wikipedia needs your penis movies [wikimedia.org]. You would think that with anonymity and with the rare opportunity to flaunt their packages in front of the world, people would be tripping all over themselves to upload their junk, but sadly it just isn't so. </sarcasm>

Firefox developers lost in Canada :-)

[mattMad]

I am not sure whether Firefox 3.1 will ever be finished as most Firefox developers seem to be trapped without power in Canada... :-) See: http://planet.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org]

Re:YouTube

[Uniquitous]

Damn shame (for them) about Adblock Plus, eh?

Re:YouTube

[Uniquitous]

If joe sixpack cant type "youtube downloader" into google and find a product to buy or get for free than he is a drooling moron.

Yes, that is generally the point of Joe Sixpack. He is a drooling moron, but he does have money to spend by dint of his minimum wage job. You want Joe's money, so you figure a way to get past his drooling moronity and make him buy your product or service.

Re:Theora still lacks good creation software

[Requiem18th]

Forks weren't invented, they were forked from Invention.

Re:MEncoder can do all that

[Tokerat]

...and figuring out how to use Mencoder ...

I run Womencoder. It's nicer to look at, but verbose mode usually produces too much irrelevant nonsense. </snark>