video codecs

Originally an experimental branch of the Mozilla project, a new web browser was launched on November 9, 2004: Firefox 1.0.

Mozilla Hacks: "The result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and more or less the same at the slightly higher bit rate."

Debian Admin: "MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2.

It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs."