HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight

Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by andreyf on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:12PM (#1104057)

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.

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by zosi on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:21PM (#1104090)

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.

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by davydka on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:49PM (#1104194)

Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by blasdel on Friday February 05, 2010 @01:40PM (#1104391)

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

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by svetlins on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:51PM (#1104203)

yes

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by orc on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:21PM (#1104093)

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

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Re:HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight by trebor on Friday February 05, 2010 @01:29PM (#1104361)

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!

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