- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:35:41 +0200
On Oct 31, 2006, at 15:57, Joao Eiras wrote: > VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/) has developed a decoder for > their low footprint media player, that decodes all major video > formats and others. It's much more stable than a regular codec, > because it was made to stream from the internet, being therefore > prepared to receive all kinds of garbage in the stream, and still > being able to decode the stream. I already had some practical > experience with damaged MPEGs which crashed any media playe on my > PC, while VLC behaved flawlessly. Eventually, UAs could make > default use of VLC's browser plugin, or embed it directly within > the browser. You are talking about the technical properties of VLC. The barriers to shipping VLC binaries with browsers are legal--not technical. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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