[theora] Seamless web video within reach

[Denver Gingerich]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Silvia
Pfeiffer<silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Denver Gingerich<denver at ossguy.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Denver Gingerich<denver at ossguy.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> Java works pretty widely on IE. Okay, lets say 20% it doesn't work on.
>>
>> 20% of 60% still gives us 12% of all Internet users that can't play
>> Theora.  That's pretty big and not very competitive with Flash
>> deployment.  This is the main reason I'm hoping to get the VLC ActiveX
>> control in better shape.
>
> And I am still hoping for a native Ogg Theora/Vorbis ActiveX control ...

Doesn't the VLC control fulfill that requirement?  Unless you mean a
control that only does Theora/Vorbis.  It shouldn't be too hard to
make such a control by ripping out the unneeded codecs from VLC.

Denver
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