Here Come the Promotional GNU/Linux Videos

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-03-15 15:05:22 UTC
Modified: 2009-03-15 15:07:45 UTC

Just published.

More will come soon. We'll try to produce Oggs from these.

Last night someone informed us of tinyvid.tv. "It's being massively promoted from the Firefox 3.1 upgrade/install welcome page," he said.

Quoting from the main page:

This site currently exists to test out usage of the HTML 5 video and audio elements with the Ogg codecs. You'll need a browser that can playback Ogg media using <video> and <audio>. Firefox 3.1 nightly builds, Opera experimental builds and Safari with XiphQT installed can playback videos with varying degrees of success. Basic playback support for non-HTML5 compatible browsers is provided by the Java based Cortado player.

When it uses Cortado, it still advertises the HTML 5 option:

This is the Java Cortado Applet version of the video player. For a better playing experience you'll need a browser that can playback Ogg media using <video> and <audio>. Firefox 3.1 nightly builds, Opera experimental builds and Safari with XiphQT installed can playback videos with varying degrees of success.

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tk

2009-03-15 16:15:40

Nice, but I think it is to dark for a promotional video. Still very nice and artistic :-)
David Gerard

2009-03-15 16:21:45

Wikimedia uses Cortado by default, by the way. The devs are basically waiting for the inbuilt FF 3.1 Ogg Theora player to sufficiently not suck. Then we'll be all over it.
Roy Schestowitz

2009-03-15 16:33:24

The person who wrote this to me uses Wikipedia to introduce GNU/Linux to Windows users.
Darren

2009-03-15 19:14:30

Very nice, but don't you mean FF 3.5? :)
David Gerard

2009-03-15 19:25:18

Not until it's out - the Shiretoko I'm using says it's 3.1b4pre ;-p
Roy Schestowitz

2009-03-15 20:34:20

Darren,

Thanks, I've modified my template.

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