Chris Jones has put together a demo video of a super-early stage Gecko-driven browser that’s multi-process.  It’s super-duper early and realizing that we’re only in Phase I of the roadmap is important but it’s great to see such speedy progress. Release early, release often!

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Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5.  They are automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion Makers and Official Users create and expect to have around 300,000 videos transcoded into the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats.  You can view the site they have up at openvideo.dailymotion.com.

Monty posted another update on the work that’s been going on to improve the Theora encoder. It’s worth re-posting here because I think that it includes some compelling images and graphs that show you improvements. So I would suggest that people wander over and have a look at his update.

The headlines include:

1.  They have made substantial improvements to Theora’s encoder.  The images which I include below really show off the improvements in sharpness at the same bitrate.

2. That the encoder is now creating higher-quality streams than H.264 at many bitrates. The data includes some comparison with x264 without ffmpeg bugs which show on this test that x264 does do better than Theora in this particular test. However, there’s an important side note worth reading on this topic.

A demo by Paul Rouget that Chris Blizzard that was done at the Open Video Conference on June 19th, 2009.

Paul's green screen demo of open web video.