Re: [OT-ish] WebM/Ogg VP8 streaming
Basil Mohamed Gohar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.theora.general |
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On 05/22/2010 08:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 05/22/2010 03:02 PM, Philip Heron wrote: >> >>> On 22/05/10 10:27, Chris Double wrote: >>> >>> >>>> There are no plans to support VP8+Vorbis+Ogg in Firefox at this stage. >>>> Our Ogg support for chained streams isn't very good at the moment so >>>> existing Icecast support in Firefox is not as good as I'd like it to >>>> be. There are bugs raised to to address that however. >>>> >>>> >>> Can the WebM format be used to stream live content? I see some >>> discussion on the icecast-devel list today about adding support so I >>> guess it can. >>> >> From what I have heard, yes it can. >> > > This would be a neat trick, the webm spec seems to require that a cues > element exists. Is this correct? > > If so I don't see how you could live stream to a conforming webm client. > I understood that Matroska can do live streaming, and I *thought* I saw talk in either #vp8 or #theora that it was possible with WebM, yeah, "from what I have heard". ;) That's all I can say.