FYI: After hearing about Safari 4's support for HTML 5, I played around with it and found that it will play Theora/Vorbis in the browser using the VIDEO tag. (If the QuickTime component is installed.)
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jason Self <jason.self at gmail.com> wrote:> FYI: After hearing about Safari 4's support for HTML 5, I played > around with it and found that it will play Theora/Vorbis in the > browser using the VIDEO tag. > > (If the QuickTime component is installed.)great ! Would be even greater if apple preinstalled the xiph QT codec -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20090609/18a86316/attachment.htm
That's totally awesome! Cheers, Silvia. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jason Self<jason.self at gmail.com> wrote:> FYI: After hearing about Safari 4's support for HTML 5, I played > around with it and found that it will play Theora/Vorbis in the > browser using the VIDEO tag. > > (If the QuickTime component is installed.) > _______________________________________________ > theora mailing list > theora at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora >
Am Mi, 10.06.2009, 23:51, schrieb Helmut Pozimski:> Am Mi, 10.06.2009, 16:49, schrieb Hannes Hauswedell: >> Am Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 15:32:32 schrieb Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves: >>> On 6/9/09, michel memeteau <michel.memeteau at gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Would be even greater if apple preinstalled the xiph QT codec >>> >>> Agreed, but really it would be just much simpler for everyone if Apple >>> prompted the user with an install option "Want to play video, click to >>> install codec". Their lawyers would be okay with it. We would be >>> okay with it. Everyone would win. >>> >>> But that's currently not the case. > Apple would loose a chance to force people to use their proprietary > Codecs. An open, patent free standard is exactly what they don't want and > therefore I doubt they would ever even tell people that there is the > possibility to play theora unsing Quicktime. > > regards > Helmut > >