More and more organizations are committing to support WebM project. Giants like Skype, Oracle are already part of the long list of supporters. Miro Video Converter can convert your videos to the WebM (VP8) format. More»
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Looking for a media player to playback your video converted to open WebM with Miro Video Converter, then grab Moovida media player. Open Source Moovida media player formerly known as Elisa is one of the first media players to boast support of the open source VP8 codec.
Moovida also supports wma, flac, flv, mpeg4, matroska(mkv), Theora and many more file formats. Its a free download for Windows and Linux. A Mac version will be out this summer. Ubuntu Linux users can install via the Software Center or using the terminal: sudo apt-get install moovida
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Miro Video Converter, a useful open source tool for converting videos to several kinds of formats – including Ogg Theora was released a two months ago together with overhauled Miro 3.
Today the development team has released Miro Video Converter 2.0, with support for Google’s new open WebM (vp8) video format, so users can quietly convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for the Android and iPhone. Miro developers believe that “WebM can help us all escape from the traps of closed, patented video formats”. More»
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Oracle just announced the release of the latest version of VirtualBox. “The VirtualBox team today released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox(TM), its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features which deliver further significant improvements in performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms.” More»
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Mozilla has just released a security and stability update to Firefox 3.6.x. Firefox 3.6.4 beta 4 fixes 194 bugs, 21 are considered critical, in Firefox 3.6.x brand, across all supported platforms; Windows, Linux and Mac. The update package is available via Firefox’s update manager for Firefox 3.6.x users – you can also download FF 3.6.4 beta 4 directly from Mozilla’s all-beta web page.
“Firefox 3.6.4 provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.”
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