HTML5 Video on the N810
The Nokia Internet Tablet's use GStreamer for the multimedia functionality. Chris Blizzard built Mozilla on the Nokia N810 with the GStreamer video backend patch applied.
He has a video on his weblog showing the N810 playing video inside Mozilla. Nice!
Categories: firefox, gstreamer, n800
He has a video on his weblog showing the N810 playing video inside Mozilla. Nice!
Categories: firefox, gstreamer, n800
Labels: mozilla
posted by Chris Double at 11:59 AM
4 Comments:
Yeah, but what codec is he using? What with your patch now allowing any codec to be used, this will pretty much mean that there will never be any base standard for video on the web. "Hey, I'll just use whatever you want!"
I mean, Gecko browsers don't allow other image formats in the image tag other than PNG, GIF and JPEG. Why is Mozilla's approach to the video tag different?
Oops, I meant: "I'll just use whatever I want".
saoshyant, yes that is an issue, I agree. Currently the WHATWG/W3C and others are working on what to use as a base codec.
By using both available backends it's possible to have Theora as the base codec and GStreamer for everything else. I use this setup in some of my testing.
You might also note that my embedding of video in that post used multiple source elements. One for Theora, and one with the .mov file.
That particular video was an mpeg4 video because that's the format that the N810 can play. It has hardware accel for that format. Not sure if it's fast enough to play ogg video.
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