[whatwg] H.264-in-<video> vs plugin APIs

[Michael Dale]

I have requested that a few times as well...  Some went so far to even 
make a mock up page: http://people.xiph.org/~j/apple/preview/

It would or course be much more ideal if we could get the component into 
quicktime codec lookup system. Is there any criteria or process that has 
been made publicly available? Are there any guidelines or special 
request mechanisms that we have missed? Eric or anyone at apple reading 
this list: if you have _any_ information as to how a codec component 
gets into the quicktime codec lookup system; it would be great if you 
could inform us.

--Michael Dale


Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> I'm sorry, but there is quite a bit of frustration from the past
> hidden in my paragraph. For the last 4 years we have been trying to
> get XiphQT added to the list of QuickTime components on Apple's
> external components webpage at
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html . We have
> seen proprietary codecs added one after the other but Xiph codecs
> continuously being ignored even though we requested addition multiple
> times and through different people. I'm sorry to say but that has
> indeed caused a feeling of being rejected on purpose. We would love to
> see this situation rectified.
>
> Regards,
> Silvia.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Eric Carlson<eric.carlson at apple.com> wrote:
>   
>> Silvia -
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> As for Safari and any other software on the Mac that is using the
>>> QuickTime framework, there is XiphQT to provide support. It's a
>>> QuickTime component and therefore no different to installing a Flash
>>> plugin, thus you can also count Safari as a browser that has support
>>> for Ogg Theora/Vorbis, even if I'm sure people from Apple would not
>>> like to see it this way.
>>>
>>>       
>>  Speaking of misinformation and hyperbole, what makes you say "people from
>> Apple" want to hide the fact that Safari supports third party QuickTime
>> codecs? We *could* have limited WebKit to only support QuickTime's built-in
>> formats, but did not specifically so customers can add other formats as they
>> choose.
>>
>>  We have never tried to hide this, it is ridiculous to imply otherwise.
>>
>> eric
>>
>>