[Advocacy] Vorbis and Theora Required MIME Types for SMIL 3.0 WD

[Jose Ramirez]

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> These are great news.  Unfortunately they put the old MIME type
> application/ogg.  As of recently, we (Xiph) decided [1] to go with
> video/ogg and audio/ogg+vorbis.
>

Hello Ivo,
I'll pass that message along.

> Hope they won't mind changing the spec in the future.  One annoying
> thing about W3C is that they rather leave bugs, issues, or errors in
> released specs instead of fixing them (see for instance XHTML 1.1 not
> allowing id in style element).
>

Not set in stone yet :)
There are few more steps before the Working Draft becomes a Recommendation.
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#rec-advance

If id in the style element is really bothering you, post a message in 
the appropriate Working Group mailing list.
I"m sure when they get around to the next version they'll address it.

> Anyhow, great news.  This will push more browsers to adopt our
> formats, making them work with <audio> and <video>, as well.  It's a
> battle against time, really, because Apple (and probably Microsoft)
> are against adopting our formats for their browser(s).  And if they
> bring MPEG 4 (or WMV) video/audio support before Firefox, Opera, or
> Konqueror do it, we shall see web designers pushing for proprietary
> formats, instead.
>
> -Ivo
>

It's a constant battle to keep the Web Free. All we can do is provide the
options, trap your media in proprietary formats or Xiph them.

Jose Ramirez

Keep the 8th Wonder of the World, alive and well.
Use free Media:

SMIL 3
Xiph media
Dirac video
JPEG images


> [1] http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions
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