[Vorbis-dev] Announce: OMTK Javascript Vorbis player

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo
<tor-einar at jarnbjo.name> wrote:
> well, it's not really true that I can present a pure Javascript Vorbis
> player, but I've been playing along with a few ideas I had to put back
> last year as it showed that I was not really able to get a proper Vorbis
> player working with Flash 9. Now, with Flash 10 and the performance
> optimizations I've been able to achieve, it seemed as a good idea to go
> on. Basically, I've wrapped some Javascript around both a Flash and a
> Java applet player to provide a unified Javascript API to access the
> "backend players". The result seem promising and allows Vorbis streams
> to be embedded and accessed through a unified Javascript API if the
> browser supports either Flash (>=10) or Java (>=5/1.5).
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The obvious next-step is to support <audio/> for maximum world-domination power.

I'm not sure why you'd require Java 5 ... cortado contains a resampler
and will even work on the old MS java-vm. :)