HTML 5 video tag – a replacement for the Flash player?

July 19th, 2009

So far, I use the Flash player to deploy videos on the web. Because it is the only one which works in all browsers on Windows and Mac OS X. But in the future, this might change since the HTML 5 video element has been adopted by Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4.

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Plugging FMJ decoders and renderers into JMF

July 12th, 2009

Decoders from the FMJ project can be used as plug ins for JMF. But some work is required.

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OMS video – A new royality free video format

July 7th, 2009

I just found out about Sun’s Open Media Commons project which appears to be working on a royalty free video format named OMS Video which is solely based on expired patents and intellectual property owned by Sun Microsystems.

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