[IAEP] Programming Needs?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 06:15, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> One programming project that would help us is described in
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495727
>
> Essentially, Firefox 3.5 will ship with beautiful support for Ogg
> Theora+Vorbis video in every webpage, using the HTML5 <video> tag.
> Unfortunately, it will almost certainly be deadly slow on the XO and other
> low-power computers we care about, because it uses a pure software,
> completely unaccelerated playback pipeline, just like Flash.
>
> The fix is to implement a Firefox/Xulrunner extension that plays back
> videos in a separate window using XVideo, with the option to go
> full-screen, etc.  For anyone familiar with Firefox extensions this would
> not be hard at all, and would be a big win for us, thanks to sites like
> openvideo.dailymotion.com.  The educational implications are substantial,
> in my opinion.

You mean to add an option to a popup menu that would open the video
in, say, Jukebox?

Regards,

Tomeu