[Vorbis-dev] Re: [Advocacy] Flash and native support for Theora and Vorbis.

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Just FYI: I run OS X and Firefox 2.0.0.5 and Flash Firefox Plugin 9.0
r28 and it worked for me like a charm - no stop-and-go at all.

Silvia.

On 7/24/07, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo <tor-einar at jarnbjo.name> wrote:
> Ian Malone schrieb:
> > 3. I don't know what the relative times are that Tor-Einar's[1][2]
> >   decoder spends doing the various bits.
> I am not sure either, but there are other problems with the
> player/decoder as well and not just the performance issue. Adobe does
> actually not even offer an API to playback the decoded PCM data and my
> player is based on a rather ugly hack, which generates AS classes in
> bytecode format during runtime, which extend an internal Flash API
> class. I would not bet on the player to work on newer Flash versions or
> on other operating systems but Windows, although it is reported to work
> on Linux as well. Another problem is the lack of controllable
> multithreading. For the player to work as good as possible, it must
> operate on relatively large PCM blocks, and as the application freezes
> completely during decoding and generation of these blocks, it is for
> example almost impossible to combine the playback engine with a Flash
> GUI. Combined with the relatively high performance requirements, I've
> come to the conclusion that it's not worth the effort to spend more time
> on the project. It was an experiment. It almost worked.
>
> Tor
>
>
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