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+ <title>When web browser developers make a video player...</title>
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+ <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description>
+<p>As part of the work we do in <a href="http://www.nuug.no">NUUG</a>
+to publish video recordings of our monthly presentations, we provide a
+page with embedded video for easy access to the recording. Putting a
+good set of HTML tags together to get working embedded video in all
+browsers and across all operating systems is not easy. I hope this
+will become easier when the &lt;video&gt; tag is implemented in all
+browsers, but I am not sure. We provide the recordings in several
+formats, MPEG1, Ogg Theora, H.264 and Quicktime, and want the
+browser/media plugin to pick one it support and use it to play the
+recording, using whatever embed mechanism the browser understand.
+There is at least four different tags to use for this, the new HTML5
+&lt;video&gt; tag, the &lt;object&gt; tag, the &lt;embed&gt; tag and
+the &lt;applet&gt; tag. All of these take a lot of options, and
+finding the best options is a major challenge.</p>
+
+<p>I just tested the experimental Opera browser available from <a
+href="http://labs.opera.com">labs.opera.com</a>, to see how it handled
+a &lt;video&gt; tag with a few video sources and no extra attributes.
+I was not very impressed. The browser start by fetching a picture
+from the video stream. Not sure if it is the first frame, but it is
+definitely very early in the recording. So far, so good. Next,
+instead of streaming the 76 MiB video file, it start to download all
+of it, but do not start to play the video. This mean I have to wait
+for several minutes for the downloading to finish. When the download
+is done, the playing of the video do not start! Waiting for the
+download, but I do not get to see the video? Some testing later, I
+discover that I have to add the controls="true" attribute to be able
+to get a play button to pres to start the video. Adding
+autoplay="true" did not help. I sure hope this is a misfeature of the
+test version of Opera, and that future implementations of the
+&lt;video&gt; tag will stream recordings by default, or at least start
+playing when the download is done.</p>
+
+<p>The test page I used (since changed to add more attributes) is
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20090113-foredrag-om-foredrag/">available
+from the nuug site</a>. Will have to test it with the new Firefox
+too.</p>
+
+<p>In the test process, I discovered a missing feature. I was unable
+to find a way to get the URL of the playing video out of Opera, so I
+am not quite sure it picked the Ogg Theora version of the video. I
+sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)</p>
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- <title>Mekanikk-delen av reprap-byggesettet på vei</title>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Endelig fikk jeg beskjed om at mekanikkbyggesettet er sendt fra
-England. Jeg kan følge pakkens bevegelser via web, og den er nå
-kommet fram til tollen i London. Da bør jeg ha den i hus om noen
-dager, hvis alt går bra.</p>
-
-<p>Elekronikkbyggesettet ser det derimot dårligere ut for. Rette
-vedkommende i USA er på ferie, så jeg har ikke fått noe tilbakemelding
-på hvordan jeg får ordnet opp i kaoset posten etterlot da de rotet
-bort første pakke.</p>
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