[theora] Fwd: [whatwg] Suddenly, ~40% of IE users get HTML5 Theora with no effort

[Jason Self]

On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Christopher Blizzard  
<blizzard at mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 2/6/2010 4:16 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>> Remco wrote:
>>
>>> Still, something is missing for the mobile crowd.
>>>
>> Yep.  We need player apps: just simple wrappers around theorarm [1]  
>> or
>> libtheora to play Theora videos.  I don't think any of these phones  
>> have a
>> way to install browser plugins, and I doubt Flash 10 will be fast  
>> enough
>> for Theora-in-Flash on a handheld ARM chip, so apps are the best we  
>> can
>> do.   At least with a player app users can download a file and then  
>> view
>> it, or copy a URL and watch it in the app.
>>
>> If you want, you could call it a "Wikivideo app", since Wikipedia  
>> uses
>> Theora exclusively.
>>
>
> Yeah, I'd like to echo this.  Ubiquity is the important thing.  And
> stuff that brings access to large numbers of users to good content is
> the key thing.  We've got Firefox, Chrome, XiphQT for Safari, Java for
> IE, now some Silverlight thing.  Over the last couple of weeks I've
> watch Christian Adam slowly convince himself that he wants to work  
> on a
> very simple native plugin for IE users that could cover basically
> everyone.  And I love the iPhone and Android app ideas.
>
> I guess I feel like it has to be more than libraries at this point -  
> we
> need to branch out a bit and move into apps where the library strategy
> doesn't work.

Assuming Apple doesn't reject it.  :-/