Tag: THEORA

It's fairly easy to download YouTube videos, but they usually come in FLV or MP4 format when you grab them right off YouTube. TinyOgg is a lightweight service that lets you grab those same videos, or just the audio, in the open source Ogg format. It couldn't be simpler to use: you just feed it with a YouTube URL, and hit Convert. You then get a short URL; after a few minutes, this URL contains a ...

I'd love for fifteen or twenty minutes to go by without my Google Reader barfing out yet another piece of software patent or "HTML5 video codec war" news, but that's how it is. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the video tag didn't become standardized until HTML6 or 7. One serious downside to the lack of consensus is the fact that your browser may very well not have built-in support ...

In a bold, blunt and brash announcement that must surely be intended to up-stage Steve Jobs' open letter to Adobe, the IE9 development team has stated that their new browser will only support H.264. This heralds the death of Ogg's Theora codec -- but OSnews says it better than I ever could. It also comes hot on the heels of news that Google's VP8 codec will be open-sourced... though I dare not ...

Rumors are swirling about Google's plans to release VP8, the video codec that powers YouTube, as open source. That could put an end to the HTML5 video wars between open codec Ogg Theora (backed by Mozilla, and backed by Google on mobile devices) and H.264, the proprietary codec favored by Apple and Microsoft (in IE9, anyway). VP8 arguably offers better quality than Theora, and it wouldn't ...

The battle for HTML5 video codec supremacy just got even more interesting, with Google officially praising the "patent-free, royalty-free" Theora codec, and endorsing it for mobile use in particular. Theora is locked in a battle with H.264, which you may recognize as Apple's preferred codec for use with the HTML5 video tag. Thus far, Theora's biggest backer has been Mozilla, which included ...