What’s so Great About Open Video?


…this:

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…and lots of other things, especially if you are a Web developer interested in really cool integration and access (demo requires 3.5). But if you are a user, you might be thinking “spare my the ideology, what’s so great about open video aside from its level of openy openness.” Well, now video is kind of like text, or images. You can post it to your Web site, you can save it, and you can link directly to it. Forget about <embed> tags and complex bookmarklet saving scripts, thanks to HTML5 (and boriss, dolske and so many others) your dominion over information will soon be complete.

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May 29th, 2009
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Written by:
Ken Saunders
Posted on:
May 29, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Well I don’t consider myself to be an expert Web developer so this is all very cool for me.

I’ve had a demo page setup for awhile now showing just how simple it is to add a (open) video to a web page using the tag.
http://www.accessfirefox.org/Embedded-OGG-Test.html

I can’t wait to dig in and do some of the cool things that I see on the page that you linked to.

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pd
Posted on:
May 29, 2009 at 11:36 pm

What is so bad is that it is unlikely to catch on because IE don’t support it and content producers may be able to give up on DRM but that doesn’t mean they’ll be happy to make content available in a means that is so simple to pirate as what you have illustrated.

Can we please stop the propaganda and wake up to the reality that not supporting anything by Ogg is a recipe for failure?

“Chrome will support H.264 video and AAC audio as well as Ogg Theora video and
Ogg Vorbis audio format.”

http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Google-Chrome-gets-HTML-video-support/0,339028227,339296704,00.htm

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Written by:
Kadir
Posted on:
May 30, 2009 at 1:16 am

pd, Chrome and Safari together represent less than 10% of the market, Firefox alone represents more than 20% and since IE isn’t going to support any HTML-video solution anytime soon, why do you think h.246 has a future on the web? Especially since wikipedia is all Ogg Theora, but there is no H.264-only video site I know of.

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Jigar Shah
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May 30, 2009 at 2:19 am

Biggest gain would some of the most popular Video sites like Youtube and Hulu starts supporting it. I am sure they will have better control over their primary revenue of advertising. And as far as DRM is concerned, Its not that difficult to get .flv and get right video format.

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Tristan
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June 1, 2009 at 1:53 am

@Jigar Shah: you may have seen that Dailymotion.com is offering videos using the video element and Ogg Theora here: http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/

See also their press release: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en

Dailymotion.com is one of the top video sharing sites in the world, possibly #2 behind Youtube, at least on a global level.

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Written by:
Julien Couvreur
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June 3, 2009 at 2:58 pm

As a user, open video is very appealing. The main benefit is that you can reference a piece of content. This allows you to email video to a friend, bookmark or queue the video, send it to another device, etc.

The question is whether content providers would appreciate those benefits and accept some loss of control…

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Posted on:
June 29, 2009 at 11:14 pm

This is very good.
This super-comfortable.
Already now, everything should be easy.