The Mozilla team has announced that Fiirefox 3.1 will come with native support for Theora and Vorbis media. So, this means that:
- open source media can become a bit more mainstream (finally moving away the proprietary mp3 monopoly);
- no longer will we have to install Firefox plugins to see embedded audio and video files (as long as they’re in .ogg format)
The code is already out, available in Firefox’s nightly builds releases for large scale testing.
We have a bunch of Theora and Vorbis files and the quality is pretty good (some say ogg audio is even better than mp3). If you’d like to see/hear for your for yourself, go to Jamendo.org, they have tons of music files you can download in ogg, and you can check out the Wikimedia page to watch some ogg videos.