Hi, I managed to get my own FLV videos working over the web: http://certik.github.com/record/ it plays in the opensource flash player (flowplayer), but I have to convert theora to FLV (you can use the script in the package above). My question is, does anyone know if it's possible to get theora itself working? I know firefox3.5 will be able to do it, but I am afraid that will be the only browser, so I think flash will stay as the only crossplatform way to handle videos. I think I will just continue converting things to FLV and hope more browsers will support theora, maybe through some plugin at least. Ondrej
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ondrej Certik<ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:> Hi, > > I managed to get my own FLV videos working over the web: > > http://certik.github.com/record/ > > it plays in the opensource flash player (flowplayer), but I have to > convert theora to FLV (you can use the script in the package above). > My question is, does anyone know if it's possible to get theora itself > working?A sufficiently skilled flash developer could get the theora decoder running in the flash VM using tools like alchemy (or a rewrite). No one has done this yet.> I know firefox3.5 will be able to do it, but I am afraid that > will be the only browser, so I think flash will stay as the only[snip] Firefox will not be the only browser. The most recent Chrome builds support Ogg/Theora and Opera will do so. Safari also does if you install the XiphQT plug-in set. Keep in mind that flash in the default OS installs is a fairly recent thing, the whole world got flash by installing it.> I think I will just continue converting things to FLV and hope more > browsers will support theora, maybe through some plugin at least.You can play in IE using Java (cortado), as well as the VLC activeX plugin. By using Javascript on your page you can auto-detect which methods are available and fall back to whichever will work best. Here is a simple page that falls back to Java if the video tag is not available: http://www.celt-codec.org/presentations/ Cheers,
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:> Hi, > > I managed to get my own FLV videos working over the web: > > http://certik.github.com/record/ > > it plays in the opensource flash player (flowplayer), but I have to > convert theora to FLV (you can use the script in the package above). > My question is, does anyone know if it's possible to get theora itself > working? I know firefox3.5 will be able to do it, but I am afraid that > will be the only browser, so I think flash will stay as the only > crossplatform way to handle videos. > > I think I will just continue converting things to FLV and hope more > browsers will support theora, maybe through some plugin at least. > > Ondrej > _______________________________________________ > theora mailing list > theora at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theoraHi, You can use the Java applet Cortado to embed your Theora videos as a second choice if the VIDEo tag is not supported. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20090624/c5026454/attachment.htm
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:> I think I will just continue converting things to FLV and hope more > browsers will support theora, maybe through some plugin at least. >Soory but I think you shouldn't : there is a way to play theora on every browser/platform combination, but your need a bit of javascript to detect the best way to do it. A great project that have achive it is Itheora. it's a simple javascript based php script that you can easily use to embed your video. Check out http://theorasea.org and see the great exemple on http://itheora.org/?p=screens It works on platforms where flash won't such as powerpc/linux -- %<------------------------------------------------------->% Michel memeteau Blog 0.2 : http://memeteau.free.fr Fixe : 0974763294 Mobile : 0624808051 VOIP | Visio: sip:freechelmi at ippi.fr <sip%3Afreechelmi at ippi.fr> jabber/GTalk : xmpp:freechelmi at jabber.fr <xmpp%3Afreechelmi at jabber.fr> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20090624/0dc76bfa/attachment.htm