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

[David Ascher]

On 6/16/09 9:54 AM, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 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.

Right -- I'd be really interested in helping anyone who wants to 
experiment with these kinds of things on top of Thunderbird 3 -- a 
videomail add-on would be very fun to play with .  The big technical 
hurdle is "collection" and encoding, obviously.

-david