[whatwg] on codecs in a 'video' tag.

Mon Apr 2 13:29:41 PDT 2007

On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:13, Dave Singer wrote:

> At 23:07  +0300 2/04/07, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> Some implementations only support AVC level up to a magic level  
>> that you have to know.
>
> are you telling us that all implementations of Ogg and Theora can  
> play audio and video up to any bitrate, screensize, channel count  
> etc., without dropping frames, getting behind, decoding badly, or  
> other limits?   That would be quite an achievement...more  
> impressive than getting a quart out of a pint pot...

Of course I am not. But hitting CPU limits is different from hitting  
magic profile parameters (even if in theory the parameters in theory  
protect the hapless user from hitting the CPU limits).

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Henri Sivonen
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