Another HTML 5 video test…

August 24, 2009 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

This is just a test. If you are running Firefox 3.5, you should get a video window that allows you to watch a Superman cartoon encoded in Ogg Theora. If you aren’t running it, but have a Java enabled browser, you should get an applet which plays the same video. If you have neither, you should get a message lamenting your condition.



P.S. I haven’t verified that Java playback works. Safari on my Macbook tries to load the Theora video, but appears to fail (Safari appears to only support h264 encoded video, retarded).

Addendum: Ah, it does work on Safari, but only if you install these Quicktime components. Kind of annoying, but it’s nice to see that it does work.

Addendum2: Shifted the clip to be one I made of my betta fish. It’s shorter, and will thrash my server less.

Comments

Comment from Dan Lyke
Time 8/25/2009 at 11:00 am

Works here with the Java plugin with Firefox 3.08 on Ubuntu and Firefox 3.5.2 on Vista 64.

Play icon with a slashed circle and a Quicktime logo on the lower right on the iPhone.

Comment from Kevin VandeWettering
Time 8/25/2009 at 1:34 pm

The java playback does work on IE8.