[Vorbis-dev] Re: [Vorbis] A Macromedia Shockwave Flash-based Ogg player?

[David M. Cotter]

> Greetings, Mr. Cotter
And greetings right back

> I believe, there's some misconceptions on your statements.
i believe there are some misconceptions in your interpretation of my  
statements.

> If you meant the resulting .swf files...
nope, i meant the flash player

> If you meant the Flash player, as I suspect you did, understand  
> that it's there that the decoding is done, thus where the playback  
> libraries are.
umm, did it seem that i did not understand that?  I thought *I* was  
trying to say that, by stating that 2: it cannot depend on an  
external library.

> No one would have to install the XiphQT (as you said) if there was  
> support for all (or some) of our formats in the Flash player
that's exactly what point 2 was attempting to point out.  however  
point 1 was that we do NOT want to make the flash player any bigger  
(in bytes), which precludes us from including even more code, eg: the  
vorbis decoder.

> Also,XiphQT is a pack of components for Quicktime, which is pretty  
> much only useful for Mac OS X users.
sorry i wasn't clear on that, i meant to say vorbis decoder.

> Furthermore, you say that Flash has only one audio solution included.
well, this feels a bit nit picky, but  i said "we have an audio  
solution".  that is, we have a solution for audio, and that there are  
in fact a few encoders to choose from is an implementation detail.

> Take notice, as well, that half of those solutions are patented and  
> require a license for use within Flash applications.
which means that the other half are already free.  so adding another  
free one won't really give us "more leverage" as seems to have been  
implied.  don't get me wrong, *I* personally would love to see Vorbis  
get in there.