Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
The HTML5 <video> element only works on a few, often bleeding edge, browsers. For tinyvid I've been only supporting this subset of browsers. Recently I put in support for a simple fallback option for other browsers. In browsers that don't support <video> the element is ignored. The contents of the element are still processed however. This means any HTML elements... more →
A while back it was announced that Daily Motion, an online video site, had opened an OLPC channel for sharing videos encoded using Theora for playback on OLPC's. The channel, http://olpc.dailymotion.com, contains theora videos aimed at the OLPC audience. What's nice is that the videos playback in Firefox 3.1 using the native Theora support and don't require a plugin, for... more →
I made a tweak to tinyvid.tv yesterday to transcode youtube high definition videos if the HD version is available. This results in bigger videos and therefore stresses the performance of the video implementation in Firefox. I'm not tweaking any parameters when transcoding so it's possible that I could produce a Theora file with better playback characteristics. In particular I don't... more →
Rob Glidden posts that a draft of the open media stack video specification is now available for comment. The specification defines a video decoder and associated bitstream syntax for decoding and playing video streams. From the specification: more →
I've updated the Not a HAppS Tutorial cookbook with an example of how to handle file uploads using file input types in forms. Next step is to take a look at how sessions and session data is handled. more →