WebM (VP8) HTML5-TV navigation with Firefox on OGGTV
After converting all of the videos on OGGTV to WebM using FFmpeg, you can see what it will be used for this fall with GoogleTV. It is obvious (with this example), WebM is for high-performance HTML5-TV playback. Lightning fast starts, and FULL-SCREEN playback on both Opera and Firefox, along with Google Chrome. As you can see, OGGTV is for TV navigation and playback, similar to GoogleTV design concepts. The form-factor and design of OGGTV is different than YouTube’s WebM playback, or YouTubeXL on TV screens, so it performs differently. OGG + WebM (VP8), will allow HTML5 media companies to reach the most web browsers, TV’s and mobile devices. TV navigation, which has a black background, and bright, easy to see controls, is exactly in line with GoogleTV. OGGTV is older than YouTubeXL, and started out with the same black and yellow colors, and video banks in early 2008, so the ideas are the same, just a different year with WebM available now for TV streaming. mobile to 1080p, using open-source video, is already built-into OGGTV now, so it took a LOT of FFmpeg encoding to become the first WebM hosting site besides YouTube. Flumotion was the first live WebM stream, 24 hours after the announcement, so OGGTV had to be the first WebM video site adopter. OGG is still “Super-King” of HTML5-TV browser support share, (just look at the Firefox 3.6 download numbers which are over 700 million alone). and it will stay that way. WebM has an instant browser market share jump with the web …
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In order to prepare for converting videos to WebM, I had to build a custom LiveCD, with all of the tools included.
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When using FFmpeg, you can convert videos to WebM. and upload it to YouTube.
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OGGTV has a OGG + WebM, dual-codec Framework, so it has the widest reach with browser share and other forms of video playback.
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This shows Firefox playing WebM (VP8), just like a a TV set. The “instant-on” video starts with FULL-SCREEN playback, is just like changing TV channels, but much faster.
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So it is obvious now, that WebM is for High-Performance TV streaming, and the framework of OGGTV easily exploits that fact.
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All I can say now, is get ready for GoogleTV this