What is HTML5 Video?

A major update to vp8 has been released and is suggested for all users.

Core improvements include better support for live streaming and video conferencing with real time compression and concurrent multiple resolution encoding.

via VP8 Codec SDK “Duclair” Released.

“It’s not just cross-device compatibility that makes ditching Flash a good idea. HTML5 is also less resource-intensive when playing back audio, and should exhibit better performance.”

via SoundCloud Goes HTML5, Makes Non-Flash Audio Player Its Default.

Ars Technica

via Mozilla demos MediaStream Processing, audio mixing in Firefox.

Roni Cohen gives us a github repository that demos how to use Kaltura cue points and .htaccess rewrites to give search engines and users links to any chapter within your videos.

How To Increase Video SEO Using In-Video Chapters Driven By Cue-Points | Kaltura Community Blog.

“Android is finally an acceptable HTML5 platform. The hiccups, crashes and poor rendering seen with previous builds have mostly been eliminated. “Although still behind the current HTML5 gold standard of iOS5, Android 4.0 is night and day compared to previous versions,” Sencha reports.”

via Galaxy Nexus A Step Up For Android HTML5 Performance.

Quality Assurance Testing with TestSwarm and QUnit

Kaltura’s HTML5 Media Library is continuously tested upon each commit to the svn repository. Testing is performed on Internet Explorer 7 through 9, Firefox 3.6 and the latest Firefox, the latest Google Chrome, Android 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x, the latest…
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Kaltura HTML5 Media Library v1.5 Released

We’re happy to announce the deployment of version 1.5 of the Kaltura HTML5 Video Library. This  release includes a number of enhancements in the playlist handler, the addition of QUnit tests for many player features and many additional plugins. This blog…
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Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices

“Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores.  We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser…
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The Open Video Conference 2011: Getting Things Done

The Open Video Conference is an annual event that brings together video creators, intellectual property scholars, and developers for a weekend of creating, remixing, and hacking. The conference was combined with the Foundations of Open Media Software workshop which attracted…
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