Can You See This HTML5 Video?

(If you can see the above video, rate its performance by leaving a comment below. Was the video smooth or stuttered? Was the audio clear or muffled?)

One of the cooler things about HTML5 is the video tag, which allows easy embedding of video into a web page. However there are a few things to know.

The best video format to use is OGV, which is an Ogg container format.

But how do you encode an OGV? The Firefogg Firefox extension is the easiest way, as shown in the video above. If you’d rather do it CLI style, there’s also ffmpeg2theora (Linux, Mac OS X or Windows versions all available).

And how do you embed video like this? Use this tag reference.

As for Internet Explorer, it can’t view the OGG container format at present – however this will change when IE9 comes around. Maybe.

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Jase
video displays fine, audio is on the staticy side though which makes it hard to hear.
I agree with you, hopefully this ogg/ogv format thing catches on, it makes videos a tad easier to deal with.
http://noneyet cuggie
It worked fine on here. Sound and picture were good. I will try to learn this.
Jay
video is doing good. audio’s a bit muffled
http://pawgang.net pawgang
video & sound fine – Chrome latest dev
David Kennedy
Fine for me in Chrome.
Gmoney
video and sound is good using Firefox 3.6.2 on a mac
Stacey
Works perfectly in Firefox Portable.
Ron Cook
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 on a 32 bit machine:
Chrome – no problems
Opera – did not display
Firefox – did not display
Konqueror – did not display (no surprises there)
Just increases my view that Chrome is the best browser on the market, for Linux users at least/
Eric Solash
In Chrome – no problems
In FF – audio a bit dull
In IE8 – no problems
JahMekYah
Audio and video are both fine. I’m using firefox 3.6.2
Dennis
Worked great in Firefox. Hope this catches on too!
Pam
Audio and video work perfectly in Firefox .
Saverio
Both the audio and video playback perfectly, better and faster than flash. I viewed it on Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) running Firefox version 3.5.8. It worked perfectly, and the embedded player loaded faster than Flash video player.
Unfortunately however, the presence of a given technology on the market isn’t due to it’s quality or usefulness but to the political and economic power of the company/ies behind it. MS Windows is an exemplary case.
I’m afraid Adobe’s Flash will still be around for the foreseeable future, with all its bugs and devastating security flaws.
John Kirkham
Works fine in Opera 10.51, just no slider control visible. Slider itself shows, but not the actual pointer you can click and drag.
Rich, will send you some cough drops…
John Kirkham
OK, so after reloading the page after posting above, slider pick now shows. Think I might uninstall flash again this time, hopefully YouTube supports Opera now.
2 weeks ago, YT was still showing Opera not supported.
http://www.sst.org.nz Peter Jenkins
Works for me at work in FF3.6
Will need to try it at home on my laptop later
Mike Payne
Both the video and audio were excellent. I didn’t see nor did I hear any type of problem. I was able to view the whole presentation. I am using Windows7, Firefox, with top end video and audio devices. I didn’t try I.E. 8 as I normally check all mail with Firefox. I give the presentation two thumbs up for effectiveness and being creatively clever.
http://xeoshift.webs.com Xeogin
Haha! Works great, and even if it doesn’t catch on, I think I’ll be using it just to get IE users to switch over. Btw, funny to see uLite.zip sitting in your bookmarks bar, hope you enjoy it, lol

http://www.menga.net Rich Menga
Yeah somebody (you?) on the PCMech Live show told me to get that for whatever reason (don’t even know what it was for), so I bookmarked it. Then when I went to get it a few days later the link was dead, so I never found out what the thing was.