- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:31:42 +0000
Maik Merten wrote:
> Okay, this is a rather lengthy list. So I'll hurry up and put my opinion
> into a nutshell:
>
> * Video support in browsers is important IMO. Otherwise the web may more
> and more slip into dependency on Flash or similiar formats ("We have to
> use Flash anyway for video, so why not make the whole site with Flash?").
>
> * Browser makers should negotiate on one base format. This format should
> be free and available on all platforms. I don't say formats that need
> patent licensing are evil by-itself, but I'm pretty sure Debian and
> Fedora would have to remove video support from their browsers if that
> functionality would depend on a format that needs such licensing. To my
> knowledge only Ogg Vorbis+Theora are performing well enough and are
> usually accepted to be "safe" and open.
I had about three goes sending a message saying the following in a more
reasoned and verbose way, but my computer is playing up. So, in brief:
The Theora developers have a deployable codec, but it's not the
reference implementation currently available for download (which is
slow, incomplete and crashes on malformed input). This next-gen codec
could be cleaned up and shipped fairly quickly if people expressed an
interest in putting it in something.
They estimate the increase in download size for a browser shipping Ogg +
Theora-ng + Vorbis at 130k.
Gerv
Received on Monday, 5 March 2007 02:31:42 UTC