[theora] [OT-ish] WebM/Ogg VP8 streaming

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On 05/22/2010 08:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> <abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org> wrote:
>   
>> On 05/22/2010 03:02 PM, Philip Heron wrote:
>>     
>>> On 22/05/10 10:27, Chris Double wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> There are no plans to support VP8+Vorbis+Ogg in Firefox at this stage.
>>>> Our Ogg support for chained streams isn't very good at the moment so
>>>> existing Icecast support in Firefox is not as good as I'd like it to
>>>> be. There are bugs raised to to address that however.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Can the WebM format be used to stream live content? I see some
>>> discussion on the icecast-devel list today about adding support so I
>>> guess it can.
>>>       
>> From what I have heard, yes it can.
>>     
>
> This would be a neat trick, the webm spec seems to require that a cues
> element exists. Is this correct?
>
> If so I don't see how you could live stream to a conforming webm client.
>   
I understood that Matroska can do live streaming, and I *thought* I saw
talk in either #vp8 or #theora that it was possible with WebM, yeah,
"from what I have heard".  ;)  That's all I can say.