Video on the web - A fresh look. Available experimental build browser Opera

In March, news was posted on myopera.net - Opera with video support? Maybe. In which reported on the experimental assembly Opera with support for the OGG THEORA codec, as well as the <Video> tag of the html5 specification. Clicking on the source link of the news from myopera.net, we get to the message of Haavard about the demonstration of Håkon Wium Lie of this very assembly with a link to the video (the quality is terrible video), besides this link to the page of Håkon Wium Lie. On this page, the creator of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, laid out his performance in excellent quality! You can watch here .

I present you the translation. Belatedly, but every day all the more relevant. The most important of the presentation:

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Entry: Video online today.

• Video is available via plugins: this is flash, quicktime, windows media, etc.
• In most cases, this flash: flash is the most affordable software; you can download it on any system - linux, windows, mac
• Incomprehensible code: if you look at the youtube sources, then we will see obscure javascript, although flash is used there — this is not a very affordable way to post videos for developers, a waste of time. And the developers of such software meanwhile declare, we are the first who launched the video on the network ...
• It's time to make the video a full-fledged resident of the web and html (first-class): you need to make the video available

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Part 1: Markup

• <Video>: Of course, the first-class resident of the web is an element, this is a tag. The <video> tag ... is simple. We want people
  typed <video> and indicated the source of the video. Like drawing

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Part 2: Video Format

• For distribution, you need to choose the main format: I think you need to choose one basic format, which will be used
• We need an open standard freely available to the toolkit: now the main format is flash. The problem is that this is not an open, not very accessible format, the documentation for which can be obtained not from anywhere. Price issue, if you are going to view and use it - is it safe. I dont know. I don't want to know. All I know is that the web community was based on open standards. When the web was founded, when html was developed. And the reason why we made the standard png- we wanted the format available to the toolkit
• The specification reads as follows:
  “The user program must support the Ogg Theora video ...”:
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  I believe that now only one format perfectly suits us, and this is Ogg Theora, probably you know. This is a relative of ogg vorbis
• Some arguments: we know for sure, without which formats we will not be able to visit the web, which is why the specification must specify which formats the browser should support
• HTML:
  
  • jpg, gif, png:
  
  HTML markup does not indicate that the browser should support these formats, but we know that without them, the browser will not be able to display pages normally

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Ogg theora

• Developed xiph.org: I ​​do not know how exactly it reads, you can read it yourself =)))
• A relative of Ogg Vorbis: this is an accessible format, many mp3 players also lose ogg vorbis audio
• Program to play: VLC
• Encoder: ffmpeg2theora - freeware utility
• Are there alternatives?
  
  • Adobe! Microsoft! Apple !: Yes. You will say there is a great alternative to mpeg4- h.264. And I will tell you this is a good design, but there are two problems. The first is not a free format, the second is a more advanced format that consumes too much energy, and for the 21st century, it is not acceptable for mobile devices.
  
  

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You can participate!

• Download experimental build Opera
• Test: visit people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/ , wikimedia.org - select any file! (Wikipedia has already adopted Ogg Theora as a standard, everything is already clear to its developers)
• Make the page tag video
• Participate in the discussion: The standard has not yet been established, you can participate in the discussion on the W3.org draft drafts website. whatwg.org

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So the experimental build with support for the Video tag and Ogg Theora is available at http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/ . Download
ATTENTION! Do not select the Opera start option immediately after installation. Run it manually after the installation is complete.