Category Archives: Xiph

The recent hubbub regarding the (admirably public) debate within Mozilla about codec support has set me thinking about how to deal with untenable situations. After rightly railing against H.264 on the web for several years, and pushing free codecs with … Continue reading →

I was really impressed by Michael Bebenita’s Broadway.js, the recent port of an H.264 decoder to pure Javascript using Emscripten, a LLVM-based C-to-JS converter … but of course this is the opposite of what we want! Who needs H.264? We … Continue reading →

So I wrote this song, sort of. Maybe you’ll like it. YouTube version Sheet Music Reference files at Archive.org After about 6 years of covering pop songs in my a cappella groups, I really wanted to sing some original music. … Continue reading →

It’s rare to get exactly one recording of an a capella concert. Usually someone’s parents have a fancy but outdated camcorder, someone in the front row has a cell phone video with a great angle but terrible quality, and there’s … Continue reading →

So you wrote a script to generate an animation with ImageMagick or something. You have a folder full of transparent PNGs, one for each frame. Now you want to do some alpha-channel compositing in gstreamer (e.g. with PiTiVi). Instead of … Continue reading →

I spent Sunday and Monday at The Free and Open Media Summit Foundations of Open Media Software in NYC. The first day was held in a smallish meeting room at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch school of NYU. … Continue reading →

You are always good for a laugh. Before: In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only. After: In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user … Continue reading →