[theora] Theora video support in Firefox and Opera

[Christopher Blizzard]

On 1/29/2010 1:22 AM, dos386 wrote:
> irefox: 3.6 is out. What's new? I don't know (see:-(  below)
>
> Trying to play videos:
>
> + Can play (in some cases) Internet videos
> + Can play (in some cases) videos from local storage
> + Seems to pass the testsuite tests ,
> http://wiki.xiph.org/TheoraTestsuite  , ("offset" looks good, 4:4:4 and
> 4:2:2 too, not sure about the 322x242 "not divisible by 16" - there is
> a black line ...)
>    

Are you having sound-related problems?  I've seen some problems on Linux 
that are probably related to sound.

> - The video controls still don't work with JS off,
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449358  , got 1'000'000'000
> duplicates but no fix, if this is not fixed for 3.6, what is fixed
> then? WtF ...
>    

It's because the controls are scripted with the same interfaces as the 
HTML5 video and use JS to run them.  They run in the page content.  
(It's also the reason you can easily replace the controls with your own!)

> - The system requirements ,
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html  , are
> hard core nonsense:
>
>    
>> >  Firefox 3.6 System Requirements
>> >  Operating Systems
>> >      * Windows 2000
>> >      * Windows XP
>> >      * Windows Server 2003
>> >      * Windows Vista
>> >      * Windows 7
>> >  Minimum Hardware
>> >      * Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500 MHz or greater)
>> >      * 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
>> >      * 52 MB hard drive space
>>      
> Regrettably to play the "duck" test at least 1 GiB RAM and 3 GHz are
> required, and it behaves really badly on "insufficient" hardware: very
> unresponsive (you can hardly leave the "offending" page), and doesn't
> play (too busy with decoding frames but all dropped before landing on
> the screen?)
>    

I played the Duck video on my laptop which has a lot of memory and a 
1.8Ghz processor.  A reasonably modern laptop, but nothing like a rocket 
ship.  On Windows, though.  If you're on Linux the graphics aren't as 
fast as they are on winows + mac.

> Better not to discuss "usability" of Vista with 233 MHz and 64 MiB RAM:-D
>    

Heh, yeah.  I wonder if these need to be changed.  No idea when the last 
time we looked at it.

--Chris