[theora] Seamless web video within reach

Michael Dale mdale at wikimedia.org
Wed Aug 5 08:01:26 PDT 2009


is it possible to "detect" with javascript if the WMP 11 DirectShow 
oggcodecs are installed (in IE) ? Does it register the mime type?

 --michael

michel memeteau wrote:
> 2009/8/4 Cristian Adam <cristian.adam at gmail.com>
>
>   
>>> BTW I never succeed to make WMP play an embed  video using the Xiph Dshow
>>> ? Anybody ? I know Itheora tema did it ( http://itheora.org/?p=screens )
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I have successfully used WMP 11 to play and embed video using the Xiph
>> DirectShow oggcodecs in Internet Explorer 8.0 and by the means of
>> Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin (
>> http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx
>> )
>> also in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 and Opera 9.64
>>
>> Here is the code I used to test this functionality:
>> http://pastebin.com/f456c75e4
>>
>>     
>
>
> Thanks Adam ! So there is nothing special to specify at last ? Weird that it
> usually wouldn't work on IE6/XP, maybe some other security settings. I'll
> test it on IE7/XP and IE8/Seven
>
>
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