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Ogg theora in Firefox, Wikimedia supporting 1

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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."
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  • I might claim that this event is unimportant due to Theora's quality compared to the leading-edge codecs, but it looks like that has been fixed [mit.edu], or soon will be. Obviously no one sane will knock Vorbis' quality.

    With the way things are going this sounds like it's going to be quite a fight between the proprietary and open worlds. I can't think of anyone better than Noikia [slashdot.org] and Apple [slashdot.org] to play the side of proprietary. ... Not even Microsoft seems to be able to pull off, well, evil as completely as those two th

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