Mozilla Goes to Bat for Open-Source Video on the Web

If Mozilla has its way, you'll soon be able to watch streaming video on sites all over the web without ever having to use a plug-in.

The software maker announced Monday that native support for the open-source Threora video format will be added to Firefox 3.1, the next version of its popular web browser. Theora files can be embedded directly into web pages just like images and viewed in any browser that supports Theora playback -- no plug-in to download, so special software to install.

[Lord Anubis]

i love you Mozilla. Neva eva change!

[kharma45]

That's a pretty awesome feature.

Credit to Mozilla for keeping Firefox on top.

[xlx-russ_92]

FireFox 4EVA

[Why dis]

Like trying to hype the WNBA.

[duplissi]

are you ever not negative?

[Fishy Fingers]

Great feature to have. Should inadvertently speed up web browsing to. As usual, if your looking for browser advancements Firefox is the place to start.

[Why dis]

OK.

[Fishy Fingers]

Dont hate on something purely because you dont understand and/or use it. Or more importantly, because MS didnt come up with it first. Stick the the console news kid.

For certain people, including myself, this could be a very welcomed app.

[ar]

@Why dis
Yeah why do you?

[micro_invader]

I'm currently using chrome and firefox but if they enable this feature soon I might go back to exclusvely firefox, until they update chrome.

[CrayzeeCarl]

They say "no plugin required" but that's because it's built into the browser. It's not much different than having a Flash plugin.

My biggest complaint with Flash is that you can't properly seek. Every time I click on the seek bar or drag the marker it always goes wherever it pleases! Drives me F***ING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!

[Kwertie]

So how is this different from building in an MP4 plugin and asking everyone to use MP4? Theora is a horrible format, way worse than Xvid or DivX, and MP4/H264 is years ahead of all of them.