- 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
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