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

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves schrieb:

> 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.  

Which? Anyway, MPEG 4 is not the only alternative to Theora. Other 
relevant open-source codecs are Snow (which looks very promising and is 
IMHO quality-wise already far beyond Theora at the same bitrate) and 
dirac (developed by BBC, but still in a very early state). From the 
closed-source alternatives, e.g. On2 has a very liberal licensing policy 
for their VP7 codec. WMV is already included in the operating system of 
90-95% or so of the potential audience, is supported through open-source 
players on nearly any other operating system and is also not particulary 
expensive to license.

> If more people used
> it, it would have a very big chance of becoming the de-facto standard
> for Internet video.

Why do you think so?

> 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.  

No, I am not going to license J-Ogg under a GPL compatible license and I 
consider Fluendo's Theora implementation in Java to be quite useless in 
many cases. Yes, I know they have a demo on their web page, but the "hi 
def" stream is stamp sized, 12.5 fps and a bitrate of 1100kbps. If 
that's the best they can offer, I don't need it. Try to play a broadcast 
quality stream at 2-3Mbps scales to full screen-size with their 
Java-player and you probably understand what I mean.

Tor