<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Simon Spiegel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@simifilm.ch">simon@simifilm.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 14.06.2009, at 04:02, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:<br>
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As for Safari and any other software on the Mac that is using the<br>
QuickTime framework, there is XiphQT to provide support. It's a<br>
QuickTime component and therefore no different to installing a Flash<br>
plugin, thus you can also count Safari as a browser that has support<br>
for Ogg Theora/Vorbis, even if I'm sure people from Apple would not<br>
like to see it this way.<br>
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It's actually quite different, on a technical level and for the user. Flash is a browser plugin and XiphQT is an additional Quicktime codec. Quicktime has supported third party codec for years; the whole point of this is that any app which uses Quicktime can make use of these third party codecs – like Safari does. A browser plugin like Flash OTOH is useless outside the browser. So like I said: these are quite different things on several level.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>It's all well and good that XiphQT can be used to support <video> and <audio> tags in Apple's build of WebKit for Safari, which I have tested and see to be truth, but a problem I see is that people won't KNOW where to get the codecs. I remember that QuickTime used to be able to grab codecs and install them from the internet like RealPlayer does now. For future versions of QuickTime, like the rumored QuickTime X, will that be brought back?</div>
<div><br></div><div>It makes sense that QuickTime should be able to search and grab the XiphQT codecs if they are needed.</div>