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Matthew Woodward  //  * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek

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Jan 21 / 1:39pm

YouTube Blog: Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos

by Matthew Woodward
A while ago, YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player. Recently, we published a blog post on our pre-spring cleaning effort and your number one request was that YouTube do more with HTML5. Today, we're introducing an experimental version of an HTML5-supported player.

HTML5 is a new web standard that is gaining popularity rapidly and adds many new features to your web experience. Most notably for YouTube users, HTML5 includes support for video and audio playback. This means that users with an HTML5 compatible browser, and support for the proper audio and video codecs can watch a video without needing to download a browser plugin.

via youtube-global.blogspot.com

Two words: Freakin'. Awesome. I probably wouldn't care so much if Flash didn't suck such copious amounts of ass on 64-bit Linux, but I can't wait to give this a shot.

Filed under  //  Flash   HTML 5   Video   YouTube  

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Jan 13 / 9:50pm

Slashdot Technology Story | YouTube Revamp Imminent?

by Matthew Woodward
YouTube's latest blog post indicated that some changes are on the way. Google has opened up a call to submit and vote on ideas. HTML 5 open video with Free formats has dominated the vote, maintaining over twice as many votes as the next-highest item almost since the vote opened up. You may vote here (Google login required).
via tech.slashdot.org

Really interesting to see the huge number of people who want to see Flash gone from a revamped YouTube. I'd love to see Theora personally.

Filed under  //  Flash   Free Software   Google   Video  

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Dec 31 / 11:34am

2009 Was a Great Year for Ogg

by Matthew Woodward

Now, however, we have an online video technology that anyone is free to use, study, improve, and distribute without needing permission or paying fees. This technology is called Ogg Theora (or just 'Theora'). Some parts of Theora are patented, but the owners of those patents have granted a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free patent license to everyone. Theora carefully avoids any patents held by traditional patent holders: to get around the ridiculous patent of image storing mentioned above, Theora stores video image information from bottom to top instead of top to bottom!

Recognizing that Theora is a crucial ingredient for the freedom of our internet, Mozilla, Opera and Google have announced support of Theora video for future or current releases of their browsers. This means that millions of users will be able to watch Theora videos using their browser, without the need for extra software. The work of the free software community, with support from Mozilla, Wikipedia and others, has brought Theora to the same level of quality as state-of-the-art video technologies

via en.flossmanuals.net

2009 was a great year for Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora, with the HTML 5 audio and video tags gaining support in browsers, and dailymotion.com converting 300,000 videos to Theora. Make no mistake: Theora is a valid alternative to Flash and h.264, and with support for audio and video tags by browsers requires no plugins to work.

Looking forward to an even better year for Ogg in 2010!

Filed under  //  Audio   Free Software   Ogg   Video  

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Sep 14 / 11:14am

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version

by Matthew Woodward
via youtube.com

"Mullet with headlights." Absolutely brilliant.

Filed under  //  Funny   Video  

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