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A video site from the Pirate Bay guys using HTML5 and Ogg Theora/Vorbis

16 points by uggedal 17y ago

Corrado 17y ago
:( it doesn't work with mobile Safari on the iPhone.
- SwellJoe 17y ago
  The first words on the first page are: The Video Bay - Beta Extreme (Don't expect anything to work at all)
vaksel 17y ago
is there any reason to use that? I mean pretty much all users would have to upgrade their browsers
- moe 17y ago
  How is that a bad thing? I'm watching the demo video in Firefox Minefield right now and it works like a charme. Video without flash means for me (on linux) no random crashes or lockups. And if someone is too lazy to upgrade their browser then well, there are a bazillon flash video sites out there for them, no?
  - vaksel 17y ago
    just a pain in the ass since you need to reboot your computer to do so. I went 2 months w/o a reboot, but ended up doing it when I had to upgrade firefox to see the site
    - buugs 17y ago
      Why do you need your computer on so much? And what os are you running that a reboot was required for firefox?
      - vaksel 17y ago
        it takes like 2 minutes to turn the computer on, and then you have to launch all the apps. I'm just used to keeping it always on, so that I can get started right away. OS is vista, but the reboot was required by firefox, not the OS.
        kzar 17y ago
        Firefox only required the reboot due to an OS limitation by the sounds of it though, I didn't have to reboot my linux box or my macbook.
    - moe 17y ago
      That's a problem with your OS and not with firefox then. My fox sometimes updates itself multiple times a day, without any rebooting.
ramy_d 17y ago
and so began the death of flash
- est 17y ago
  Flash might die for many things, but not this one.
paul9290 17y ago
THis is great to see and maybe in 3 to 5 years the video tag maybe become as popular as flash? THough every web browser will need to support it, along with ogg vorbis and other non proprietary codecs. Microsoft ... erggh!
- cdibona 17y ago
  It's not so out of hand as all that. Chromium/chrome 3 dev and Firefox 3.5 are all already there or so close as to basically be there. Safari is very close, but the codec story isn't super clear. Microsoft could be closer, but ...they're also working with the html5 team. so it's not totally hopeless.

16 points by uggedal 17y ago

Corrado 17y ago

:( it doesn't work with mobile Safari on the iPhone.

SwellJoe 17y ago
The first words on the first page are: The Video Bay - Beta Extreme (Don't expect anything to work at all)

vaksel 17y ago

is there any reason to use that? I mean pretty much all users would have to upgrade their browsers

moe 17y ago
How is that a bad thing? I'm watching the demo video in Firefox Minefield right now and it works like a charme. Video without flash means for me (on linux) no random crashes or lockups. And if someone is too lazy to upgrade their browser then well, there are a bazillon flash video sites out there for them, no?
- vaksel 17y ago
  just a pain in the ass since you need to reboot your computer to do so. I went 2 months w/o a reboot, but ended up doing it when I had to upgrade firefox to see the site
  - buugs 17y ago
    Why do you need your computer on so much? And what os are you running that a reboot was required for firefox?
    - vaksel 17y ago
      it takes like 2 minutes to turn the computer on, and then you have to launch all the apps. I'm just used to keeping it always on, so that I can get started right away. OS is vista, but the reboot was required by firefox, not the OS.
      - kzar 17y ago
        Firefox only required the reboot due to an OS limitation by the sounds of it though, I didn't have to reboot my linux box or my macbook.
  - moe 17y ago
    That's a problem with your OS and not with firefox then. My fox sometimes updates itself multiple times a day, without any rebooting.

ramy_d 17y ago

and so began the death of flash

est 17y ago
Flash might die for many things, but not this one.

paul9290 17y ago

THis is great to see and maybe in 3 to 5 years the video tag maybe become as popular as flash? THough every web browser will need to support it, along with ogg vorbis and other non proprietary codecs. Microsoft ... erggh!

cdibona 17y ago
It's not so out of hand as all that. Chromium/chrome 3 dev and Firefox 3.5 are all already there or so close as to basically be there. Safari is very close, but the codec story isn't super clear. Microsoft could be closer, but ...they're also working with the html5 team. so it's not totally hopeless.