[theora] streaming theora in flash

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Ondrej Certik<ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I managed to get my own FLV videos working over the web:
>
> http://certik.github.com/record/
>
> it plays in the opensource flash player (flowplayer), but I have to
> convert theora to FLV (you can use the script in the package above).
> My question is, does anyone know if it's possible to get theora itself
> working?

A sufficiently skilled flash developer could get the theora decoder
running in the flash VM using tools like alchemy (or a rewrite). No
one has done this yet.

> I know firefox3.5 will be able to do it, but I am afraid that
> will be the only browser, so I think flash will stay as the only
[snip]

Firefox will not be the only browser.

The most recent Chrome builds support Ogg/Theora and Opera will do so.

Safari also does if you install the XiphQT plug-in set.

Keep in mind that flash in the default OS installs is a fairly recent
thing, the whole world got flash by installing it.

> I think I will just continue converting things to FLV and hope more
> browsers will support theora, maybe through some plugin at least.

You can play in IE using Java (cortado), as well as the VLC activeX
plugin.  By using Javascript on your page you can auto-detect which
methods are available and fall back to whichever will work best.

Here is a simple page that falls back to Java if the video tag is not
available: http://www.celt-codec.org/presentations/


Cheers,