hi, I'm Alexander a just a question ? is there a reason why there shouldn't be a web player for theora in Mozilla FireFox ? or Internet explorer ? I'm thinking to compile videolan player with theora support only and enable the web plugin interface, it would replace the cortado player and possibly provide a better alternative to flash video plugin in linux when somebody starts a youtube type of site powered only by theora codec and theora video plugin ? I'm been trying to compile videolan for 2 weeks I've failed each time and i do not know where to ask for help, I've been asking in the videolan forum but not much there. so I'm looking for your help in compiling the videolan player without those extra modules and video codecs, there is already good javascript support here http://revolunet.github.com/VLCcontrols/ whats missing to make a theora video plugin is somebody taking the time to compile the videolan player without the extras. so please if you, have some experience with compiling videolan, please try to compile a small version of the player with only theora support thank you, i hope the developers someday make a official theora player that isn't based on java -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20100323/ae835554/attachment.htm
mysoogal mysoogal <alexander.alisani at gmail.com> wrote ..> hi, I'm Alexander a > > just a question ? is there a reason why there shouldn't be a web > player for theora in Mozilla FireFox ?Firefox already includes built-in support.> or Internet explorer ?IE is, well, from Microsoft. :) It has support via Silverlight, I believe.> I'm thinking to compile videolan player with theora support only and enable > the web plugin interface, it would replace the cortado player and possibly > provide a better alternative to flash video plugin in linux when somebody > starts a youtube type of site powered only by theora codec and theora video > plugin ?Don't the latest GNU+Linux browsers already include support for Theora, with the video tag? My copy of gNewSense included a browser with support.
Hi Alexander, I suggest you go to http://videoonwikipedia.org/ and test different browsers. VLC will install if it is missing ( it is compiled in gcc for win so it is really what developers regulary do ). also for ie - take a look to https://trac.xiph.org/browser/trunk/oggdsf ( or http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/oggdsf/ ) it already has an initial support for html5 tag in ie. so you might help here in case you want Visual Studio support ( vlc will no compile in visual studio - though I managed to compile it an year ago but it took me about several weeks of hard effort). also as Jason mentioned there is planned silverlight support for theora in ie in near future. Regards Sergey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20100327/f0bae498/attachment.htm
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, mysoogal mysoogal <alexander.alisani at gmail.com> wrote:> hi, I'm Alexander a > > just a question ? is there a reason why there shouldn't be?a?web > player?for?theora in?Mozilla FireFox ? or Internet explorer ?? I'm thinkingAs others have mentioned: Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have native support. Safari has native support if XiphQT is installed. IE is the exception, though hopefully the silverlight player will be helpful there. Unfortunately the silverlight module isn't out yet as far as I can tell.> to compile videolan player with theora support only and enable the web > plugin interface, it would replace the cortado player and possibly provide a > better alternative to flash video plugin in linux when somebody starts a > youtube type of site powered only by theora codec and theora video plugin ?So? I haven't tested VLC's plugin lately but a few years back it was _very_ likely to crash the browser and resulted in many complaints at Wikimedia. I'm sure that it has improved a lot, but many people still have old versions of the plugin installed so that legacy makes it a bit hazardous to use. :( An initiative you may find interesting is the activex control with oggdsf: http://cristianadam.blogspot.com/2010/02/ie-tag-take-two.html When completed this software will provide a very lightweight implementation of the <video> tag as part of the ogg directshow codec install.> I'm been trying to compile videolan for 2 weeks I've failed each time and i > do not know where to ask for help, I've been asking in the videolan forum > but not much there. so I'm looking for your help in compiling the videolan > player without those extra modules and video codecs, there is already good[snip] Independently of the plugin stuff, I think it absolutely would be useful to have a cut down version of VLC that could be distributed with Theora/Vorbis files. I'm not sure where you're getting hung up, it seems to compile okay for me with lots of things disabled.