- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:35:13 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joseph Daniel Zukiger wrote: > > Or, rather, if we knew that Apple (and others?) would at least be > willing to open their phones to 3rd party codecs. (Yes, the third party > codecs can be built, if the API for the container is truly open.) This already exists -- there have been reports even in this thread of Ogg Theora plugins working with Apple's <video> implementation. This doesn't help with closed systems (e.g. iPhone), and it isn't an ideal situation -- we'd _like_ to be in a position where all players can implement the same thing without relying on third parties. Failing that, though, it is true that third party codecs can be the way to a solution. > After a little sleep, a suggestion occurs to me. (I have not read all > the subthreads, maybe it has been made already, if so, mea culpa.) Incidentally, I must encourage everyone to read all the messages before posting. If you don't think everyone else's messages are worth reading, why should they consider yours worth reading? :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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