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24Jan/110

Open source HTML5 media wrangling

As seen in my previous post HTML5 finally allows plugin-less playing of media. The new WebM container allows for seeking and streaming over vanilla HTTP. It restricts the use of codecs because of IP issues, so at the moment only VP8 and Vorbis are allowed.

To start transcoding your own videos I wrote a small tutorial. Enjoy.

2Oct/090

H.264 encoding tutorial

I've added a page to the tutorials section with information about encoding H.264 video for websites. Check out the page, you can find it on the right.