Firefox being released with open source video and audio codecs

Categories: Audio and Video Industry News Office
The Mozilla team has announcedthat 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.

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