"Although there's a lot of good stuff in there, for me
the key one is the support for HTML5 and elements. As well as
giving Firefox some amazing capabilities in terms of embedding and
manipulating videos, these new features are important for another
aspect: their support of the Vorbis codec for Ogg audio, and the
Theora codec for video.
"Here's what theora.org says:
"Theora is a free and open video compression format from the
Xiph.org Foundation. Like all our multimedia technology it can be
used to distribute film and video online and on disc without the
licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with other
formats.
"As readers of this blog will be aware, all the other video (and
audio) formats generally used, even by open source systems, are
patent-encumbered. Theora and Vorbis offer the first free
alternatives to them that are good enough to be used by the general
public without anyone noticing (trade-offs between quality and
freedom don't go down too well in that neck of the woods)."
