using HTML 5

[Gary]

I asked about HTML 5 over on thescreencastinghandbook
http://groups.google.com/group/thescreencastinghandbook/browse_thread/thread/a89f0455af3650a5

Is this group a better place to ask?

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There are a few comments on this group, I found this thread with
comments about open video formats etc.
http://groups.google.com/group/showmedo/browse_thread/thread/392210e6304bc762


The video tag is supported in Firefox 3.5 and displays mp4 and ogv out
of the box for me. It just worked in Chrome 3.0.195.27 on this Windows
laptop.

The Internet Archive tests if the user's browser is any good. It
offers to use the video tag if it will work and just puts up the flash
option if you are using IE 8 or some other less capable browser. Check
this out
http://www.archive.org/details/Sita_Sings_the_Blues

The video tag lets you give various choices for what is played, you
can put mp4 then ogv and the browser chooses what is best for that
user's browser. You can also add a flash option if the browser does
not understand the video tag. My plan is to build the video the best
way, put it on YouTube and also have a web page that displays as mp4
and ogv (probably). I plan on taking the source video and converting
with ffmpeg or whatever works so there is not really any extra work to
get the various formats.

So I will

1: learn how to best generate useful video
2: actually generate something worth watching!
3: put on a web page with a copy on YouTube.

The reasons for both a page and on YouTube are:

The webpage lets me have video and text.
The webpage lets me have big HD versions.
The webpage can be downloaded.

YouTube will be viewable by all, including mobile and older browsers.

Or I could be wrong ;-)

Gary

[Gasto]

The world would be a better place if the majority of videos were ogv,
and web developers used the <video> tag instead of Flash, and users
would use Ubuntu instead of Windows. But we aren't in utopia so we
have to deal with Flash too. Sigh.

On Nov 6, 8:42 am, Gary <gary.freder...@jsoft.com> wrote:
> I asked about HTML 5 over on thescreencastinghandbook

>  http://groups.google.com/group/thescreencastinghandbook/browse_thread...

>
> Is this group a better place to ask?
>
> -----
> There are a few comments on this group, I found this thread with
> comments about open video formats etc.

>  http://groups.google.com/group/showmedo/browse_thread/thread/392210e6...

[Kyran Dale]

I'm following the html5 video movements quite closely. Google look to be trying to force the situation by buying the On2 codecs and Microsoft are stalling as ever. Speaking for Showmedo, I would love to be using the video tag - obviously flash fails on the FOSS front, but there are quite a few other irritations that make it sub-optimal. The majority seem to caution that it will take a lot of time to establish any of html5, but movement on quite a few fronts, notably the canvas tag, suggests otherwise. The ubiquity of IE is going to be a major sticking point I think.

Kyran

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Gasto <gabriel...@gmail.com> wrote:

The world would be a better place if the majority of videos were ogv,
and web developers used the <video> tag instead of Flash, and users
would use Ubuntu instead of Windows. But we aren't in utopia so we

have to deal with Flash too. Sigh.a