3D Meets Open Video: HTML5 + NVIDIA + WebM + Firefox

Got this hardware? Then watch YouTube go into 3D. All you need is to get a friend to toss some fish from behind your monitor to complete the effect. (See: Muppets Take Manhattan.) The promise of genuinely open video isn’t just making something “open” for the sake of it. Realizing that potential means doing something […]

Miro 4 Media Tool Promises the Quality of Closed, Only It's Open; Could Be HTML5 Dream Utility

Miro 4, an open source video player, has long been promising at least on paper as a means of sharing and watching open video. But the delivery in early versions was shaky, suffering from stability issues in some cases and simply failing to provide a compelling use case in others – particularly with browsers and […]

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2011

Miro 4 Media Tool Promises the Quality of Closed, Only It’s Open; Could Be HTML5 Dream Utility

Miro 4, an open source video player, has long been promising at least on paper as a means of sharing and watching open video. But the delivery in early versions was shaky, suffering from stability issues in some cases and simply failing to provide a compelling use case in others – particularly with browsers and […]

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2011

The Entire Web Video Debate Summed up in Two Haikus, One Big Impasse

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2011

Google Hands Open Video a Huge Win, as Misconceptions Persist

Peter Kirn - January 12, 2011

As Apple Pulls GPL-Licensed VLC, The Developers' Version of Events, What it Means for Free Video

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2011

As Apple Pulls GPL-Licensed VLC, The Developers’ Version of Events, What it Means for Free Video

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2011

IE9 to Support Open VP8 Video – If You Install the Codec Yourself

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2010

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