- From: James Justin Harrell <herorev@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:14:39 -0800 (PST)
Section 3.14.7.1, "Video and audio codecs for video elements", currently says this: "User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [OGG]" The language could be improved. "Ogg Theora" refers to Theora-encoded video enclosed in an Ogg container, not the Theora codec. Similar for Vorbis. "Theora" and "Vorbis" should be used without "Ogg" to refer to the actual codecs. I also feel the choice here of the Ogg container format is a bad one, and that Matroska would be a much better choice. Matroska is produced by an effort focused solely on producing a container format, while Xiph was more concerned with the codecs. Ogg's purpose was to contain Theora and Vorbis, quickly, while Matroska is a powerful general-purpose media container that is built to last. The tools for Matroska are more polished, easier to use, and offer more features. Most importantly, Matroska is already a much more popular container format for video than Ogg. I suggest the text be changed to something like the following: "User agents should support the Theora video codec and Vorbis audio codec, as well as the Matroska container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [MATROSKA]" It might be a good idea to define what "support" here means. Are user agents supposed to come with support out of the box, or could they satisfy this recommendation with a mechanism that automatically finds, downloads, and installs the appropriate codec when first needed?
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