Today, almost all the videos available in a wide area network, requires for its work on computers availability of audio and video codecs, four major manufacturers: Microsoft (Windows Media), Adobe (Flash), RealNetworks (RealPlayer) and Apple (QuickTime), all of these codecs . However, the plug-ins with codecs for viewing are free to use and download, as the manufacturers make money on software to encode video in the format, placement of the video servers, as well as to display the video streamed on the network.
Of Opera and Mozilla, makers of like web browsers, are planning soon to make changes to work with video on the Internet. They intend to further develop browsers for maximum viewing comfort and easy. And also will promote the concept of free video and software to create it. However, today this is only possible with the Ogg Theora, and therefore will focus on it. Analysts say that the manufacturers of commercial codecs are also not sitting idly by. For example, Adobe has just released a new version of Flash9, and Microsoft is actively promoting its new system of Silverlight, moreover, that software vendors are trying to enter into an agreement with Web publishers to use it to developments on various portals.
However, if the browser vendors as a key tool for viewing sites along the way will go to support free codecs, for example, the same Ogg, then the administrators of large sites will inevitably follow, as this path is a path with the least cost to users and maximum comfort for the Web . This situation may be confused cool card giants like Microsoft and Adobe. Basic HTML language for the Internet and had no means ready to work with video, for example, to embed into the page flash-movie, should be placed in a special block of code in the javascript, that for an inexperienced user can be difficult.
In the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today are already working on an extension of Hypertext Markup Language, so that he can handle the video, but no final decisions on this score yet. In Mozilla says that the system improved video support in the upcoming Firefox 3 will not have time to come, as the case of more recent works. At the beginning of December, Opera has released a test build of its browser with native support for Ogg Theora.
However, experts believe that the producers closed codecs, including Microsoft, which is also the author of the dominant browser on the market of IE, does not support the initiative because it conflicts with their interests. However, the W3C says that if there is standardization and support for Opera and Mozilla, then Microsoft, Adobe and other companies simply have no choice. They did try to be very sensitive to market changes and be sure to follow the innovators, especially if they see that people began to use free software.
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