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(I'm including the list in my reply to you.)<br>
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Just to clarify, Theora is a video format. Speex is an audio
format. There is no obligation in either format definition to
support the decoding of the other (i.e., a Theora decoder doesn't
have to support Speex). One application that does support that
combination is VLC Media Player, which works across Windows, Mac,
& GNU/Linux.<br>
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Additionally, it is unfortunate that, while many browsers support
doing so, there is no mandatory, royalty-free format specified by
HTML5 for multimedia. So we have the situation where Mozilla
Firefox, Google Chrome, & Opera all support Ogg Theora + Vorbis
natively, Apple Safari does not. Microsoft Internet Explorer also
has no plans to support Ogg formats natively. Both Safari & IE
can be made to support them, however, but require additional
software to enable such support.<br>
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On 10/19/2010 11:52 PM, mark wrote:
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hi -<br>
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thank you for taking the time to answer my question.<br>
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i just assumed that speex would be the best way to go because
of the ultra-small size. and since theora and speex are on
the same website i just incorrectly assumed that theora and
speex are part of the same group, and that perhaps theora
would play speex.<br>
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it appears that the html5 <audio> tag also uses theora.
or am i wrong there?<br>
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thanks,<br>
mark<br>
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
Basil Mohamed Gohar <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org"><abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mark
Edwards <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@EdwardsMark.com"><mark@EdwardsMark.com></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Mark
Edwards <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark_f_edwards@yahoo.com"><mark_f_edwards@yahoo.com></a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:theora@xiph.org">theora@xiph.org</a><br>
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October 19, 2010 6:53:27 PM<br>
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Re: [theora] using theora for voice-audio playback<br>
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On 10/19/2010 09:36 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
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i wish to use theora for voice-audio website playback.<br>
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ideally i would be using speex but from what i can tell,
i am unable to use theora in html5 to play back speex
files. i know speex can be done with flash, but i want
to avoid using flash.<br>
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i have about 5,000 separate but SHORT audio voice files
(most are under 5 seconds). i have selected ogg-vorbis
32kbps 22,050 mono as my settings.<br>
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does anybody have any opinions on this? any better
ideas? note - i need to avoid mp3 for this project.<br>
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thanks,<br>
mark<br>
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Mark,<br>
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Theora is a video format. I think you mean Ogg, which is a
container format, and it is most commonly used for the
popular Vorbis audio format.<br>
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While Ogg can be used with Speex, if you are aiming for
small sized-files and low bitrates, it's more efficient to
use the plain default container that Speex uses. However,
neither Speex nor its native format are supported by any
current browsers, to my recollection. You will probably
need a plug-in to get Speex playback in the browser.<br>
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However, since your files are already in low-bitrate Ogg
Vorbis files, and these are already supported in most
browsers, I wonder why you need to go to Speex at all? Do
you have any special reason to do so?<br>
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