- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:53:18 +0100
- To: "Robert Brodrecht" <w3c@robertdot.org>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>, <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Also sprach Robert Brodrecht:
> > I don't see how you're going to avoid that with
> > <video> unless you intend to make it a non-pluggable system, which does
> > not seem like a good idea.
>
> I think that was the idea. I don't need plugins for certain media files,
> e.g., GIF, JPEG, and PNG (and maybe WAV, MP3, and MIDI using bgsound in IE
> if that is still around). If a certain set of cross-platform video codecs
> could be supported, there would be no need for a plugin.
Exactly.
> What WHATWG has been shooting for, is one common codec. At this point,
> WHATWG folks want Theora.
Yes, it's a likable format. If anyone has better ideas, this is the
time to step forward.
> Apparently, that may still have some licensing
> issues.
Some unnamed vendor has said it's unlikely they will ship a Theora
decoder, for whatever reason. Hopefully they will reconsider when
Wikipedia starts using it for real.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 19 March 2007 18:53:38 UTC