Watch Video...without Flash

[anon]

Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.

No plugins? No Flash?
Nope - for all content from Motionmakers and Official Users we are using the new HTML < video > tag, supported by Firefox 3.5, to display the video, and not any proprietary technology.

Dailymotion Blog Archive du blog Watch Video…without Flash (http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/)

[plentonimus]

This is just one of the advantages of HTML 5.
I can not wait until 99% of the users are cabable of useing it.

[SBfreak]

The only thing nasty about it is this:
But wait - the video quality is lower and sound is sometimes crackly…
That’s normal…for now. The new encoding formats we’re using are Ogg, Theora + Vorbis. They’re not yet as good as other common codecs such as H264, ON2 VP6, but they comprise an open format that is not patented, is free to use, and is supported by the Mozilla foundation (Wikimedia blog Blog Archive Mozilla and Wikimedia Join Forces to Support Open Video (http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/26/mozilla-and-wikimedia-join-forces-to-support-open-video/)). So don’t worry - it’s going to improve soon. We have a few tricks to improve the quality, but for the moment re-encoding 300,000 videos in this format forced us to compromise.

Hope they'll improve it faster:tongue: