[theora] Theora video support in Firefox and Opera

Philip Jägenstedt philip at foolip.org
Fri Feb 26 00:24:55 PST 2010


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 15:36, Christopher Blizzard
<blizzard at mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 2/25/2010 11:16 PM, Philip Jägenstedt 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.
>>
>>
>
> Speaking of which, did you try to watch the lessig event today?  Wondering
> if Opera handles live video OK.  If not, we should try and fix that.

I didn't try, I expect my bandwidth here in Beijing isn't really
enough. That said, we do handle HTTP sources without Content-Length
and which don't support byte ranges, but there may of course be bugs
in it still.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt


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