Re:YouTube / Ogg/Theora comparison
by ZeroGravitas on Monday June 15, 2009 @06:26AM
(#658207)
Couple of basic factual errors:
Google Chrome is shipping Theora/Vorbis. They ship it as well as H.264 in Chrome, but without H.264 in Chromium (as they can't licence the patents).
Opera has had Theora/Vorbis supporting builds for a while. It seems very likely they will go with Theora when they launch full support.
Note also that Xiph Qicktime codecs allow Safari to use Theora as well. These codecs should just intsall from the net when you encounter such a file, but while we wait for Apple to get around to that they could easily be piggy backed onto one of the many pieces you need to install to get all video working well on Mac OS X (Perian, VLC, mplayer, or even Mozilla Firefox)
It may only be mediocre or "good enough", but it is "free". If you don't understand the importance of that to the web then congratulations on your lack of "ideology".
Or maybe letting some random corporations place a tax a vital part of our technical infrastructure in return for marginal technical benefits is an ideology, just not a very good one?
Google Chrome is shipping Theora/Vorbis. They ship it as well as H.264 in Chrome, but without H.264 in Chromium (as they can't licence the patents).
Opera has had Theora/Vorbis supporting builds for a while. It seems very likely they will go with Theora when they launch full support.
Note also that Xiph Qicktime codecs allow Safari to use Theora as well. These codecs should just intsall from the net when you encounter such a file, but while we wait for Apple to get around to that they could easily be piggy backed onto one of the many pieces you need to install to get all video working well on Mac OS X (Perian, VLC, mplayer, or even Mozilla Firefox)
It may only be mediocre or "good enough", but it is "free". If you don't understand the importance of that to the web then congratulations on your lack of "ideology".
Or maybe letting some random corporations place a tax a vital part of our technical infrastructure in return for marginal technical benefits is an ideology, just not a very good one?