For those who’ve been waiting, here’s a couple videos of me slacklining and attempting jumping on, or as a long time friend calls it, “The Flying Mount.”
The first one is of me failing a bunch of times. The second is of me finally succeeding!
For those who are interested in the mechanics of the html video tag, and use in FireFox, here’s a few things I’ve come across.
First, nobody likes autoplay. Thus, there’s a control for that. According to some sites, and logic, you would add “autoplay=’false'” to the video tag. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Apparently this is what they like to call a “boolean value” by which if you specify anything for autoplay, it takes it as true and will autoplay. So if you don’t want it to autoplay, don’t specify it.
Secondly, I’ve had a rather difficult time finding reasonable converters from x video format to OGG Theora. For you linux users, you can use ffmpeg2theora. (For you debian and ubuntu users there’s an apt package of the same name.) That will convert most anything to OGG Theora. It’s what I use.
Third, and partially related to number two, apache2 by default doesn’t recognize .ogv (.ogv is what ffmpeg2theora gives as an output) as an OGG format file, and thus doesn’t relay the proper mime data to FireFox. You can either force it with a .htaccess file, or just rename the file to .ogg. This second option is what I’ve done, and it makes it work.
Good luck!