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A Note about Air Mozilla

July 06th, 2007 | Category: Mozilla

Next Wednesday, July 11, at 2pm PDT/9pm GMT, we’ll be relaunching Air Mozilla. Read more on what to expect over at Asa’s blog.

The live webcast requires the Flash player 9 plugin (for Windows, Mac OS or Linux) to be installed to view the video stream. For a number of reasons, I’m less than happy about requiring the use of a proprietary piece of software on the client end to experience the webcast. Because we know not everyone who’s interested in the interview has Flash installed, we’ll be quickly archiving and making available the recorded webcast in multiple formats, including Theora, shortly after the live webcast.

The webcast solution we’re using for the relaunch of Air Mozilla supports about 800 simultaneous streams, and allows us to intercut the live webcast with pre-recorded content from a web-based control panel. That said - we’re not committed longterm to any single solution, and we’re very interested in hearing from folks who know of open source webcasting solutions that we can also assess for future Air Mozilla shows.

Chris Double’s ongoing work to add <video> element support in Firefox is moving us forward to the day that we can all watch webcasts in our browsers with no proprietary plugins required. In the meantime we’re looking forward to re-introducing Air Mozilla next week, and hope you’ll join us.

7 Comments so far

  1. Jon Pritchard July 6th, 2007 1:50 pm

    Wow great news, I loved the Air Mozilla on Firefox 1.0 release day, really got the buzz going. Nowadays it doesn’t seem like a big event but it should. Hope everything goes ok, you’re dead right about Flash, but last time you were using quicktime weren’t you?

  2. Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more July 6th, 2007 2:19 pm

    relaunch of air mozilla…

    Join us next Wednesday afternoon for the return of Air Mozilla — the live “call in” show featuring influential Mozilla contributors from all over the world. This second inaugural broadcast will feature Michell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler and CEO at…

  3. Asa July 6th, 2007 2:24 pm

    Jon, last time it was audio only and I think we did use quicktime.

    - A

  4. Patrick July 10th, 2007 7:00 pm

    If you’re looking for open source streaming solutions, you should definitely ask Fluendo: http://www.fluendo.com/

  5. Paul Kim July 10th, 2007 7:08 pm

    Thanks for the tip Patrick. I’ll get in touch with them.

  6. Hacking for Christ July 11th, 2007 2:14 am

    Free Software Video Streaming…

    Paul Kim has noted that he is unhappy that Air Mozilla will be using proprietary Flash technology. If anyone knows of a free software video streaming system with capabilities similar to Mogulus. the one they have chosen, please let us know :-)……

  7. rlf-razorback July 11th, 2007 4:15 pm

    Great service! A visual Radio Rebelde!

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