[whatwg] video tag javascript library for contemporary browsers

J. King jking at dark-phantasy.com
Wed Oct 15 10:28:20 PDT 2008


On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:13:17 -0400, Nils Dagsson Moskopp  
<nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 09:52 -0400 schrieb Michael A. Puls II:
>> Awesome! The vlc plugin has awesome performance! Way better than
>> native video implementations currently.
>
> Maybe the Mozilla and Opera people can tell us why ? After all, the
> optimizations in VLC apparently are all open source ...

Certainly in Opera's case VLC being open-source doesn't help: the code is  
released under a restrictive license (GPL), so unless I misunderstand the  
finer ponts of the license Opera would be unable to use it.

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J. King
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