[whatwg] The issue of interoperability of the <video> element

[Robert O'Callahan]

On 6/27/07, Nicholas Shanks <contact at nickshanks.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 Jun 2007, at 09:28, Maik Merten wrote:
> > Browsers don't rely on the OS to decode JPEG or PNG or GIF either
>
> In my experience that seems to be exactly what they do do—rely on the
> OS to provide image decoding (as with other AV media).
> I say this because changes that had occurred in the OS (such as
> adding JPEG-2000 support) are immediately picked up by my browsers.


You do not know what you are talking about. Firefox does not use OS image
decoders.

likely to be slower and buggier than the free decoding
> component written by the codec vendor themselves


We use official Ogg Theora libraries.

and detracts from the time available for implementing other browser changes.


No-one's suggesting reimplementing codecs. We're talking about integrating
existing codecs into the browser, and shipping them with the browser.

Rob
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