[theora] Theora video support in Firefox and Opera

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:13, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 13:02,  <j at v2v.cc> wrote:
>>> On 02/26/2010 02:05 AM, Torrance wrote:
>>>> I've just downloaded Opera 10.5 for Mac. Can anyone else confirm that
>>>> it's not playing theora videos when encoded with the --seek-index option?
>>>>
>>> that would be gstreamer failing to parse skeleton and throwing an error.
>>> http://wiki.xiph.org/OggIndex-Migration lists it but so far nobody has
>>> stepped up to write the required code to fix gstreamers ogg demuxer.
>>>
>>> j
>>
>> Oh great, is there no version number in Skeleton, or does gstoggdemux
>> just not check it and fails instead?
>
> If a test is added to http://wiki.xiph.org/TheoraTestsuite when the
> format is frozen we'll make sure to fix the bug.

Failing a file based on not understanding the nearly-useless skeleton
header is pretty bad form.

I will gladly make you 1000 files with busted skeleton headers which
you should be able to play, if it would help. :)