Nokia has joined Apple in calling for a change in the video code requirements for HTML 5. Specifically they want the W3C Working Group to drop the requirement that browsers and devices support the Ogg video and audio codecs.
Read more »Nokia rails against "proprietary" Ogg
http://www.pcpro.co.uk –
Category: Legal Tags:
- Login to post comments
Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster
http://rudd-o.com –
"Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way..." -- via slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss
Read more »
Category: Opposition Tags:
- Login to post comments
Nokia on Ogg
http://blogs.gnome.org –
Slashdot linked this weekend to a Nokia position paper on the use of Ogg in the HTML5 proposal for the media elements. For those of us who have followed the HTML5 discussion for some time there is little new in the position paper, he is simply regurgitating the same arguments that Apple Safari people came up with.
Read more »
Category: Business Tags:
- Login to post comments
Mozilla looks to make video on the Web easier
http://www.linuxworld.com –
"...Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages. [...] If video encoded in Ogg Theora plays directly in the browser..."
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Does your browser do video?
http://spreadopenmedia.org –
"Those who haven’t left the planet in the last year have at some point heard of HTML 5, the new improved language that will likely power the Web in the coming years. One of the many great features it sports, which will be of interest to free formats enthusiastics, is the multimedia elements: 'video' and 'audio'..."
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
MP3s On Ubuntu - The OGG Alternative
http://www.lockergnome.com –
Have a CD collection sitting around waiting to find its place in your new Ubuntu lifestyle? Maybe you have existing non-DRM protected MP3s on Ubuntu and are looking for way to listen to them on Ubuntu without resorting to using MP3 considering its gray area of use.
Read more »
Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
RMS: Ask Radiohead to release songs in Ogg Vorbis
http://www.stallman.org –
"...If you are a Radiohead fan, please try to contact them and ask them to release the same songs in Ogg Vorbis also." - RMS
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Future of Firefox and JavaScript
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Support Ogg Vorbis and your own freedom
http://www.digitalcitizen.info –
"The Free Software Foundation has started a new campaign to convince people to support Ogg Vorbis with PlayOgg.org. Other formats (such as MP3, AAC, and many others) are patent-encumbered or only available with proprietary software. You shouldn’t have to lose your freedom to control your computer just to play audio and video..."
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Should We Fight for Ogg Vorbis?
http://www.linuxjournal.com –
One thing I should state immediately is that I think that Ogg Vorbis is great: it's cool technology doing all the right things in the right way. So my doubts about this campaign have nothing to do with any weaknesses in Ogg. It's just that I wonder whether this is really something the free software world should be expending much energy on when there are other more pressing problems.
Read more »
FSF - 'Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign
http://www.fsf.org –
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Wednesday, May 16, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.
Read more »Category: High End Tags:
- Login to post comments
