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Chris Ilias

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Jun 2, 2009, 6:59:15 PM6/2/09
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Is there an official term for the media player in Firefox 3.5? (e.g.
Firefox open video player", "Firefox open media player")
Just wondering what to call it in sumo.

Philip Chee

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Jun 3, 2009, 1:12:12 AM6/3/09
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Perhaps you are thinking of Songbird:
<http://getsongbird.com/>
Or Miro:
<http://www.getmiro.com/>

Phil

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Dao

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Jun 3, 2009, 2:45:27 AM6/3/09
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I'm not sure about your context. You don't say "Firefox image viewer" or
"Firefox text renderer" either, for instance.

Chris Ilias

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Jun 3, 2009, 11:41:28 AM6/3/09
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For some reason, Beltzner's and Blizzard's replies did not show in the
newsgroup, even though they were sent to the list. :(

On 02/06/09 7:02 PM, Mike Beltzner wrote:
> Video player?
> Native video controls?
>
> Remmeber that any website (see: Dailymotion) can provide their own player
> controls.
>
> cheers,
> mike


On 02/06/09 7:12 PM, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Default player? Built in player?
>
> Will the audience here know the difference?


The context:
We're creating a support article that explains:
* Why the player is there
* How to access controls
* What each control does
* Keyboard shortcuts
* Saving a video (maybe link to a list of desktop players that support it)

So we just want to make sure we are using correct terminology. We were
going to call the article "Using the Firefox open media player", but
from Beltzner's and Dao's comments, it looks like a) there is no
official term, and b) we(sumo) are using the wrong approach. It should
be something more like "Viewing audio and video in Firefox without using
a plugin" (but shortened).

Robert Kaiser

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Jun 3, 2009, 12:30:17 PM6/3/09
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Chris Ilias wrote:
> So we just want to make sure we are using correct terminology. We were
> going to call the article "Using the Firefox open media player", but
> from Beltzner's and Dao's comments, it looks like a) there is no
> official term, and b) we(sumo) are using the wrong approach. It should
> be something more like "Viewing audio and video in Firefox without using
> a plugin" (but shortened).

"Using the internal audio and video player"?

A plugin is basically a plugged-in external player ;-)

Robert Kaiser

Christopher Blizzard

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Jun 2, 2009, 7:12:26 PM6/2/09
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Default player? Built in player?

Will the audience here know the difference?

On Jun 2, 2009 7:02 PM, "Mike Beltzner" <belt...@mozilla.com> wrote:

Video player?
Native video controls?

Remmeber that any website (see: Dailymotion) can provide their own player
controls.

cheers,
mike

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Mike Beltzner

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Jun 2, 2009, 7:02:07 PM6/2/09
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Video player?
Native video controls?

Remmeber that any website (see: Dailymotion) can provide their own player
controls.

cheers,
mike

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Is there an official term for the media player in Firefox 3.5? (e.g.
Firefox open video player", "Firefox open media player")
Just wondering what to call it in sumo.

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Mike Beltzner

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Jun 3, 2009, 2:06:47 AM6/3/09
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On 3-Jun-09, at 1:12 AM, Philip Chee wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:59:15 -0400, Chris Ilias wrote:
>> Is there an official term for the media player in Firefox 3.5? (e.g.
>> Firefox open video player", "Firefox open media player")
>> Just wondering what to call it in sumo.
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of Songbird:
> <http://getsongbird.com/>
> Or Miro:
> <http://www.getmiro.com/>

No, he was thinking of the default <video> and <audio> implementation
shipped in Firefox 3.5.

cheers,
mike

Mike Beltzner

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Jun 3, 2009, 11:51:06 AM6/3/09
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On 3-Jun-09, at 11:41 AM, Chris Ilias wrote:

> On 03/06/09 2:45 AM, Dao wrote:
>> I'm not sure about your context. You don't say "Firefox image
>> viewer" or
>> "Firefox text renderer" either, for instance.

That's a good point. You probably want to call the article "Viewing
video in the browser" and have it link off to articles about flash
players and talk about the native controls. It'll be tricky, but I
know you guys can do it :)

> For some reason, Beltzner's and Blizzard's replies did not show in
> the newsgroup, even though they were sent to the list. :(

Apparently there's some sync-fail. Yay.

cheers,
mike

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