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

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> Not that I except this discussion to go anywhere, but out of curiosity I
> checked how Firefox/Safari/Chrome actually implement canPlayType:
>
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Video_type_parameters#Browser_Support
>
> Firefox is conservative and honest (except maybe for "audio/wav; codecs=0",
> what could you do with the RIFF DATA chunk?)


Wave codec 0 means "unknown codec", so we return "maybe", but we should
actually return "no" since in practice we refuse to play a file with 0 in
the format field. We'll fix that.

Safari gets maybe/probably backwards compared to what the spec suggests.
> Chrome seems to ignore the codecs parameter, claiming "probably" even for
> bogus codecs. Authors obviously can't trust the distinction between "maybe"
> and "probably" to any extent.
>

Please file bugs against those browsers --- especially Chrome, since they
haven't shipped video support yet.

It's not hard to implement this right, these issues reflect sloppy
development more than a fundamental problem IMHO.

Rob
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