Re: Re: [theora] This is a sad day for interoperability in the Web
"Gregory Maxwell" <[email protected]>
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On 8/21/07, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[email protected]> wrote: > (BTW... Cortado is being added to vPIP -- http://vpip.org/ -- a popular > Wordpress plugin for adding video support.) Great news. I would highly recommend anyone adding Theora+Vorbis support to webapplications seriously consider adopting the multi-method approach we've taken on Wikipedia. You can see the code to the new, and not yet in production use, of our formulation of this in the MediaWiki oggplay extension: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/OggHandler/ I think that, in particular, support for the HTML5 <video/> tag is important today because having it will bootstrap the upcoming support in browsers. Java playback works for a reasonably large number of users already and is IMHO much better than installing a bunch of QT stuff. ... but HTML5 browser based support is the fast-track path to getting penetration closer to flash's. With the multi-method approach we currently get working playback for roughly 3/4 of the IPs who try it... We've had over a million distinct IPs playing Ogg video or audio from Wikimedia sites in the last couple months that we've supported multi-method+java playback.