Open ogg support in Mozilla

Organization Xiph.Org and Mozilla have a general direction - to keep the web free and open to anyone, so it was not a surprise that Chris Blizad reported that Firefox 3.1 will support Ogg Theora and Vorbis, as well as the html5 <video> element.

Mozilla is going to add internal support for ogg video and audio in the next release, which will also include support for the video element tag. (Most likely in 3.1, if no big changes happen.) The ogg support code was added last night. I think the effect of this change will not happen immediately, but it is a huge step for the emergence of a full-fledged open video standard on the network, which will be used by a couple of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Christopher Blizzard

Code accumulated in a separate branch of Mozilla is sent to the main code and is now available by default. You can download nightly builds and test . Example of a working site with ogg - Wikimedia video archive
There is still a lot of work ahead. Parts of the format are awaiting implementation in functionality, uncorrected bugs. But now you can use the codec on all platforms.
Chris Double

Developers can now say goodbye to proprietary media technologies. For private companies, open standards mean the disappearance of the intermediary and his claims for licensing fees. And for ordinary users, this means that sending, storing and playing video and audio will become as easy as it’s just happening to images.

With the element of the video and the support of Theora, such exciting development opportunities as SVG desktops , video commentary and other ways for online interaction with video will become real. The adoption of this online revolution by other browsers in the near future will begin a new century of multimedia. Be a part of it.

via theora.org/news