HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 4:40 PM UTC

HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight
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Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by andreyf » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:12 PM UTC

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by zosi » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:21 PM UTC

andreyf wrote: post #2

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by orc » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:21 PM UTC

andreyf wrote: post #2

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

Microsoft has no part in this. Highgate Media Suite is creating the Ogg Decoder as a Silverlight library.

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by davydka » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:49 PM UTC

zosi wrote: post #3

andreyf wrote: post #2

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.

Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by svetlins » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:51 PM UTC

davydka wrote: post #5

zosi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.

Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?

yes

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by jmillikin » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 5:56 PM UTC

Looks like Theora wins -- this means that about 94%* of web browsers either support it natively, or can watch it via a pre-installed plugin.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 6:23 PM UTC

jmillikin wrote: post #7

Looks like Theora wins -- this means that about 94%* of web browsers either support it natively, or can watch it via a pre-installed plugin. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

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Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by trebor » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 6:29 PM UTC

andreyf wrote: post #2

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

This is, technically, an effort by people to ensure Theora is usable in most web browsers. In other words, they're bringing a decoder to IE and any that don't support Theora ... if the user has Silverlight/Mono.

I see a win/win here, if it's opensourced!

Re: HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

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Post by blasdel » Fri, Feb 05, 2010, 6:40 PM UTC

davydka wrote: post #5

zosi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.

Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?

And if you swap out its copies of the ffmpeg libraries with unmolested ones, it supports every codec and container format under the sun!