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.
“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.”
The Finnish Broadcasting CEO, Lauri Kivinen, believes that HTML5 is the most robust solution to deliver video content to the three primary screens in consumer’s homes: HDTV, tablets, and mobile phones. Click through for the full interview from beet.tv.
via Finnish Broadcast Chief: The Problems with Native Apps and Upside of HTML5.
WebM’s Hardware decoder design is now at the fourth version with significantly improved decoder that extends battery life on mobile devices.
“In this release, our focus has been on optimizing the VP8 bitstream decoder. The new architecture helps the IP run at 13% higher operating frequency allowing the decoder chips to reach higher frame rates or do multi-channel decoding more easily. At the same time, the new implementation has reduced the decoder’s logic gate count by 6% which directly cuts the production cost of each chip incorporating a WebM hardware decoder. Furthermore, the revamped design allows us to do even more optimizations for the next release. With future video requirements in mind, we designed Driver to decode up to 4k by 4k video resolutions.”
via The WebM project blog: Picking the Right Driver.
Jeroen Wijering (creater of the JW Player) gives an excellent overview of Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology that facilitates bitrate switching for html5 video delivery… until the DASH standard is finalized by Netflix, Microsoft, and the WebM project and until hardware WebM video decoders are publicly adopted by phone manufacturers.
via Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now.
“From the desktop to the mobile Web, HTML5 is making the Web’s one true killer app, the browser, the centerpiece of innovation.”
Read Write Web presents a look back at how HTML5 has changed web development strategies and what is going to continue to change on into 2012.
Kate Hudson has put together an annotated video demo of how popcorn.js can be used to provide glossary and paraphrasing alongside a video performance of Macbeth.
via Shakespeare goes social: Mozilla Popcorn in the classroom « o p e n m a t t.
Wikimedia Commons – A database of 6,251,355 (and counting) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. Check it out: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Public Videos – a repository of open, original, high-quality, and royalty-free video footage that are released or waiting-to-be-released into the commons as public domain with the help of the website users. Check it out: http://alpha.publicvideos.org/
Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non- commercial use. Check it out: http://pad.ma/
Metavid.org — Metavid is a community driven archive of legislative video from both houses of the U.S. Congress, spanning from early 2006 to the present. The archive is searchable by speaker name, spoken text, date, metadata scraped from outside sources and user contributions. Check out http://metavid.org
HTML5 is a set of web standards being developed by the “Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group” (WHATWG). As of December 2009 all major browser vendors have participated to some degree in the standard’s process. The HTML5 standards process outlines many new features for more dynamic web applications and interfaces. One such component being specified and implemented is the video element.
The HTML5 video element is presently supported by Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome comprising about 33% of the overall browser market. The HTML5 video standard is also supported in mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone and version 2 of the Google Android platform. Both of these popular mobile platforms don’t support Flash plugins and subsequently the video tag is the exclusive mechanism to distributed video in these mobile HTML browsers.
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