On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis support for the HTML5 <video> element has landed in Firefox Minefield nightlies (3.1a2-pre). This is *big news* because it means a standard way of displaying video in web browsers will be available to all without being stuck with Flash. And Theora is the only accepted format on Wikimedia Commons.
See: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-July/045036.html http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed...
What we need is people to test this. So please download a copy of Minefield, test it thoroughly on Wikimedia Commons video, beat on it, thrash it, report bugs. There's plenty.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
You need to load the video, click "More …" and it'll give you the option. Wikimedia would very much like to make it a first option rather than a last one, but first it needs to be better (more functional and stable) than loading Cortado with Java.
It doesn't.
I go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Central_Reclamation_Phase_3_-_2008-0... and click on the play button. I get
* Download file Use player: * Cortado (Java) (selected) * Still image only
Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008072303 Minefield/3.1a1pre
Magnus