[theora] video tag options

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 19/1/10, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tom
>> Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>
>> wrote:
>> > --- On Sat, 16/1/10, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
>> <ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > my main need is a subtitle
>> >> option
>> >> > what are my options?
>> >>
>> >> There's no such thing (at the moment) in HTML 5.
>> >>
>> >> Currently, you'll either have to do your own
>> custom code
>> >> with
>> >> Javascript and it won't work for people who have
>> it
>> >> disabled; There's
>> >> an example at:
>> >> http://annodex.net/~silvia/itext/
>> >
>> > Elephants Dream would not load error 500 returned
>>
>> When you were looking at this, we were in the process of
>> moving
>> servers. You should try again.
>>
> works this time :)
>>
>> >> or use Cortado (a Java plugin), which can read
>> subtitles
>> >> off an Ogg
>> >> stream, but it won't work without Java and is not
>> HTML 5;
>> >> There's an
>> >> example at:
>> >> http://people.xiph.org/~oggk/elephants_dream/elephantsdream.html
>> >
>> > my system didn't like play the video :(
>
> the video stops, yet the slider and time count up
>
>>
>> > the one thing I liked about Mv_embed is that you can
>> move backwards and forwards thought the video based on the
>> subtitles/timed-text
>>
>> I think there will be a new release of mvEmbed this week.
>> It may
>> actually have been renamed to mwEmbed, so you may want to
>> check out
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MwEmbed .
>
> i have mwembed 1.0
> the only thing that i caan think of may be duration difference
> my system (mythtv) store time in seconds (76207620), not hours:minutes:seconds

The latest version I believe is at
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/js2-work/phase3/js/mwEmbed/
.

Michael is planning to do a new release this week, too.

Cheers,
Silvia.