<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Kristof Zelechovski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl">giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The VIDEO element will
not be useless without a common decoder. Its usefulness depends on its
content: it will be limited to user agents that support at least one encoding
offered by the author. Even if a common decoder is specified, many
authors will not use it because they do not know it, they do not have the tools,
they are reluctant to learn or they consider the proprietary solution better
for production and valid for their target audience.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">IMHO,</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Chris</span></font></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>Ahh, but the thing is, there ARE tools to make Ogg videos. And more would spring up if Theora was chosen as the common codec. Already quite a few proprietary and open source multimedia manipulation programs support the Ogg container and Ogg Vorbis codec out of the box. A good example being Nero Burning ROM. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The thing is, the "audience" won't know the difference. To them, its just a faster player playing videos without crashing their browser or causing it to slow down at odd times. The content makers are not going to have a problem making Theora videos. Besides, most content making software use either DirectShow codecs or ffmpeg on Windows. On Mac, generally they use QuickTime codecs. And on Linux, usually GStreamer or ffmpeg is used.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since Theora/Vorbis codecs for all of those platforms are available, existing software would be able to output Ogg videos.</div><div><br></div><div>And where the heck would "reluctant to learn" come from? This isn't a programming language, it is a codec! All they have to do is change the selection of codecs on the output of their video.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for "not knowing it," there is already some publicity on Ogg Theora videos from the Mozilla team. And Dailymotion has converted a portion of their library for the purpose of experimenting with it. Wikipedia/Wikimedia uses it already. The Internet Archive also uses it. There is no doubt that people already know it.</div>