- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:32:26 +0100
Also sprach Ian Hickson:
> ON THE CODEC
...
> > Given this, I would suggest Ogg Theora be the natively supported video
> > format common to all browsers. It's designed from the beginning to be
> > unencumbed. And implementations for it already exist under licenses
> > that should make everyone happy.
>
> A number of other people said similar things about Ogg Theora.
>
> For now, the spec says that UAs SHOULD support Theora for video and Vorbis
> for audio, and SHOULD support the Ogg container format (it's not a MUST
> because some vendors may have legal reasons why they can't or won't
> support it, and there's no point making them non-conforming when they have
> no choice in the matter).
I'd rather make <video> and <audio> optional so that those who cannot
support these Ogg on these elements (for whatever reason) can still
comply with the spec. They can also support proprietary codecs through
<object>.
-h&kon
H?kon Wium Lie CTO ??e??
howcome at opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Friday, 16 March 2007 16:32:26 UTC