[whatwg] Serving up Theora <video> in the real world

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:

> To recap (off the top of my head): it's hard to say if you can play
> something because that requires either a validator, or actually
> playing it, So in addition to 'yes' and 'no', a 'maybe' was added, to
> say "I've heard of the media type and codecs and profiles, so it's
> worth trying; no promises."


The way we've implemented in Firefox, we'll return "yes" if you specify a
codecs parameter and we support every codec in your list. So
v.canPlayType("video/ogg; codecs=vorbis,theora") returns "probably" in
Firefox 3.5. I think this is reasonable because I believe that, modulo bugs
in our implementation, we support the full Theora and Vorbis specs. On the
other hand, we will return "maybe" for v.canPlayType("video/ogg"). I think
this distinction will be useful.

I know it's trickier for H.264 where there are many profiles, but IIRC the
codecs parameter is flexible enough to encode profile levels as well.

Rob
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