[Advocacy] Flash and native support for Theora and Vorbis.

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

Mr Maxwell,

You are on the wrong list.  You should have posted this on theora-dev
and/or vorbis-dev.

Your request of being contacted privately is lame.

Anyhow, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo (tor-einar [at] jarnbjo [dot] name) is the
only one known to have tried an ActionScript parser for Vorbis and
Theora, but with no success.  After all, a scripting language is not
appropriate at all for this kind of work.

Adobe developers on Xiph lists have seemly passed the message that
there was interest in seeing Theora and Vorbis support in Flash, but
with no success, either, it seems.

No one more than us want to see Flash players being able to work with
Vorbis and Theora.  And Speex, too.  We cannot however force
corporations to follow our bidding.

It is possible that the <video> and <audio> elements of HTML 5 will
change the situation and make it easy for anyone to distribute Vorbis
and Theora content, as if they were merely displaying JPEG images.

-Ivo