[Vorbis-dev] Java and ogg/vorbis

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Charles wrote:

> Also I want to encode short videos in Xvid and then encode the audio 
> in vorbis. Then I want to stream this over the Internet using a Java 
> applet. I will need to implement the vorbis and Xvid decoders in Java 
> as part of my applet,  but where can ogg help me in this little ( or 
> is the word confusing) project? 

There are a few Java decoders for Vorbis. Conrad already mentioned 
JOrbis, which is a more or less 1:1 rewrite of libvorbis and there is my 
implementation (mostly written from scratch) with a more OO-ish API 
available from http://www.j-ogg.de. I started implementing a Theora 
decoder as well, but to be honest, Java and multimedia doesn't match 
very well and seeing the lack of interest for my Vorbis decoder was one 
of the reasons why I decided to not spend more time on the Theora decoder.

AFAIK, the best quality video codec with an available Java decoder is 
On2's VP6 (Theora is based on VP3) and there is a working applet 
directly on http://www.on2.com. Unfortunately, the sound support in 
On2's applet is pretty mediocre, but I've already thought about trying 
to integrate my Vorbis decoder, making it possible to stream VP6 video 
and Vorbis audio. Available CPU power is however still a problem, as the 
Java decoders are quite a lot slower than the native implementations.

Tor