HTML 5 vs. Flash, H.264 vs. Theora

HTML 5 ist (oder wird?) eine Weiterentwicklung von HTML. Eine der Zielsetzung bei der Entwicklung war es, „Schnittstellen zur Arbeit mit verknüpften Multimediainhalten zu schaffen“ (Wikipedia). ReadWriteWeb sagt nun schon etwas vollmundig den Untergang von Flash voraus.

Fakt ist: Videos können mit HTML 5 einfacher eingebunden werden als zuvor. Wer sich für die Technik interessiert, mag sich mal den Quelltext dieses Demos ansehen.

Ein anderes schönes Anwendungsbeispiel für HTML 5 ist die HTML 5 Drum Machine von Random Thinking. Damit kann man mit ein bißchen herumklicken zum Beispiel sowas komponieren. Eigenkompositionen werden in den Kommentaren gerne entgegen genommen!

Auch Youtube setzt auf HTML 5. Leider zeitgleich auch auf auf den proprietären (und kostspieligen) Video-Codec H.264 statt eines offenen Formats wie z.B. Theora. Daher bleibt der Firefox erst einmal ausgeschlossen. Dies widerspricht übrigens der offiziellen Google-Politik in Sachen „offene Standards“:

Open will win. It will win on the Internet and will then cascade across many walks of life: The future of government is transparency. The future of commerce is information symmetry. The future of culture is freedom. The future of science and medicine is collaboration. The future of entertainment is participation. Each of these futures depends on an open Internet.

File under „Sonntagsrede“? Mal sehen, was sich nun entwickelt. Die Reaktionen der Youtube-Fans scheinen größtenteils nicht besonders begeistert auszufallen. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass Youtube freiwillig auf geschätzte 25-30% der Surfer verzichten möchte. Verbreitung = Werbung = Geld. Eine einfache Rechnung, die den Google-Verantwortlichen auch schon durch den Kopf gegangen sein wird.

Live in the library 6: Mika Miko – Wild Bore

Live gigs in the library seems to be almost always been held by musicians who like to play soft and quiet.
Mika Miko, a punk rock band from Los Angeles, USA, like it hard and loud and they proved that on April 20th, 2008 in the Los Angeles Central Library.

I’m not really sure if this song is called „Wild Bore“ or „Capricorinations“. Los Angeles punk rock librarians, can you help me? And if you find other nice clips of live gigs in libraries please tell me in the comments! All songs will be tagged with „live in the library„.

Update: Sorry, I embedded the wrong video clip…

Live in the library 5: No Age – Sleeper Hold

No Age call themselves a experimental / powerpop / punk band (at least on MySpace). On April 20th, 2008 they performed live at the Los Angeles Central Library.

Live in the library obviously doesn’t have to be nice and quiet.

If you find other clips of live gigs in libraries please tell me in the comments! All songs will be tagged with „live in the library„.

Live in the library 4: Molly, Joho & Daddy – Mirador (by Efterklang)

Not really live in a library but at least in front of a library and organized by a library is this song. World’s famous Molly, Jojo & Daddy are performing a song called „Mirador“. It’s orginally by the Danish band Efterklang. I doubt that they can perform this song as intense as Molly, Joho & Daddy do. But you can check yourself at Efterklangs current tour through Europe.

If you find nice clips of live gigs in libraries please tell me in the comments! All songs will be tagged with „live in the library„.

Live in the library 2: Peter Morén – Take On Me

Bibliothekspop was an event in december 2009 in Stockholm. The public library presented some live gigs in their own building. One of those gigs was by Peter Morén, who is very popular in Sweden as a member of Peter, Bjorn and John. Here you can see him with his version of a song originally by another wellknown band from Scandinavia.

If you find nice clips of live gigs in libraries please tell me in the comments! All songs will be tagged with „live in the library„.

Thanks to Peter!

Live in the library 1: Thomas Leeb – Riddle

Last week I posted a video of Kristin Hersh playing live in the Burnley Library and I received several positive responses. That made me think of a weekly „live in the library posting“ here at Infobib. If you find nice clips of live gigs in libraries please tell me in the comments! All songs will be tagged with „live in the library„.

Let’s kick off this little series with „Riddle“ by Thomas Leeb, a really remarkable guitar player. If you listen to his song without seeing him performing, you could think that there’s a complete band.

(Thanks again to Frank!)