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Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just spotted this on The Inquirer... > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/649/1050649/mozilla-champions-open-source-web-video > > It looks like Mozilla is to include native support for Theora video in > Firefox 3.1 and it's also passing out around $100,000 in funding via the > Wikimedia foundation for the development of Theora and Vorbis. Opera > have also said they will support Theora in the latest versions of their > browser. > > Surely this has to be a good thing for end users. Not having to rely on > Flash, Quicktime or even worse Windows Media. All they need to do now > is get Google & Youtube on board to start providing higher quality > videos in Theora format, hopefully then it'll drive the adoption of > Firefox and open video & audio formats (and maybe with any luck > encourage hardware manufacturers to provide better support for OGG > Theora video, Vorbis audio and FLAC audio). > > Rob > > Looks good, but it still needs some good advocacy on our part. Paul -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : Feb 7th : 3pm (TBC), Shoreline Cafe Paignton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html