[theora-dev] [Cortado] How to support seeking in on-the-fly generated Theora stream?

Silvia Pfeiffer silvia at silvia-pfeiffer.de
Tue May 24 04:28:00 PDT 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:17 PM, David Schueler
<david.schueler at wapkamera.de> wrote:
> silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com wrote on 05.24.2011 02:31:41 AM:
>
>> Also: why are you using Cortado and not e.g. Firefox 4 with Ogg
>> Theora support?
>
> Oh thats simple:
> Because i cant assume that everybody who's browsing to my website is using
> FF4.
>
> Currently i use a little JavaScript which checks if the browser supports
> HTML5 with OGG/Theora video like FF, Chrome or Opera does. If possible it
> will use the <video/> tag then. But many ppl are out there who use IE
> 6/7/8/9, Safari, $whatever which don't support native theora playback.
> Blame M$ or Apple for that, not me ;-)

Yup, makes sense. :-)
S.


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