[theora] Firefox 3.5 Preview Shows New Hope For Open Media Standards

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:

> On 6/16/09, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> You want to speak to this man!
>
> This is actually an important concern.  If email clients don't catch
> up as well, people will start complaining.  If <video> works on their
> browsers why are they limited to images in email?
>
> Well, it's true that people don't send messages bigger than 10 MB
> because most providers limit the size of attachments, but I do see
> lots and lots of "funnies" being send around*
>
> -Ivo
>
> *usually in WMV because people reckon that's the most compatible video
> format out there, but that's neither here or there.

I was actually trying to be funny, sorry. :)

I've talked with David quite a few times about adding functionality  
like this to thunderbird and I think he's keen to do so.  They will  
pick up the next rev of the platform and will be able to play pretty  
easily.  Going to recording + sending is another issue - we need  
someone to write portable video + audio collection code for quicktime,  
windows and linux.

--Chris