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

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

On 1/16/07, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo <tor-einar at jarnbjo.name> wrote:
> FLAC support is already included in J-Ogg and there is also a Speex
> implementation for Java. Video support is however difficult, if not
> impossible. It is not really a performance issue, as recent Java
> versions have gained a lot in that aspect, but the Java API simply does
> not provide enough access to required functionality. On the other hand,
> I'm not particulary eager to spend time at all on Theora, as quality is
> not really very up to date compared to the alternative video codecs and
> I have strong doubt that Theora have any chance to gain much popularity.

I'm sorry to hear your dislikeness of Theora.  It has some advantages
to MPEG 4 ASP, and I don't mean only patent-wise.  If more people used
it, it would have a very big chance of becoming the de-facto standard
for Internet video.

I don't know what license is used for your J-Ogg.  I can't find it on
its website.  If it's compatible with GPL, though, you may add code
from Cortado http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/ to play Theora.  Add
Theora and Speex decoding to J-Ogg, and it would become the main Java
player for all of the Ogg family.  That would be really awesome.  Now
that Java is under GPL, J-Ogg could even become the solution for Ogg
playback in Wikis that Wikimedia is looking for.

-Ivo