- From: Robert <rjmunro@arjam.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:58:27 +0000
We need a free video codec, but browser makers will not implement it in their browsers, due to alleged patent risks (which may or may not be real). What if we could transfer those patent risks away from the browser, and on to the content providers? Would that satisfy people? How could we do that? The codec is usually a relatively small download download compared to the video itself. If we could suggest a way for codecs to be provided alongside the videos by the content providers, this /may/ be a way forward. Hypothetically, you could do video by adding better binary file handling to Javascript, and painting on the canvas, but good performance is unlikely. However, now that Java is free, Java applets could provide a solution. There is already a free Ogg Vorbis/Theora java applet here: http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/ Java is available for all the major browsers and already installed on many small devices. We should structure things so that browsers that did have a native codec for the format can use it. Perhaps we should mandate the ability to unpack an ogg contained stream, play the vorbis audio, and pass the video to java. Maybe we can allow either Theora or Java, but you must have one. Robert (Jamie) Munro -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 249 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071223/14f46128/attachment.pgp>
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