Vorbis dev - Feb 2007 - ANN: OMTK WPlayer (Flash/Java Vorbis Player)

Hi,

after the talks about this a while ago here on the mailing list; I've 
managed to put together a useful proof of concept of my ideas. I've 
wrapped Java and Flash "engines" in Javascript, allowing a Vorbis
player
to be embedded on a web page if _either_ Java or Flash is installed on 
the client, with the Javascript API remaining identical, independent of 
the actual engine used:

http://www.omtk.org/wplayer/radio.html

I've tested it on the most recent versions of IE, Mozilla and Opera and 
the only current limitation is, that the artist and title is not 
displayed when using the Java engine on Opera. There are still some 
licensing issues to be clarified on parts of the Flash code, so by now, 
it's only this demo available and no source code. The Java engine is 
based on J-Ogg (www.j-ogg.de), but I am planning to refurbish the old 
J-Ogg code and rerelease it in the OMTK project. The French web radio 
Frequence3.fr kindly allowed me to use their stream for this demo and 
they have already signalled interest in using the player on their web page.

CPU load when decoding Vorbis with the Flash engine is still an issue 
and I am unfortunately quite sure that the code cannot be optimized any 
further :-(

Tor