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So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Micros

by andreyf 17y ago

So Microsoft technology will support an open video format, while Google's Chrome only supports proprietary ones? Clearly, this is a confusion/FUD move by Microsoft.

zosi 17y ago
Erm, Chrome supports Theora in HTML5 video. I just played a few of the examples from http://double.co.nz/video_test/ http://double.co.nz/video_test/ as well as the Opera page linked from there to test, and they worked fine.
- davydka 17y ago
  Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?
  - svetlins 17y ago
    yes
  - blasdel 17y ago
    And if you swap out its copies of the ffmpeg libraries with unmolested ones, it supports every codec and container format under the sun!
orc 17y ago
Microsoft has no part in this. Highgate Media Suite is creating the Ogg Decoder as a Silverlight library.
trebor 17y ago
This is, technically, an effort by people to ensure Theora is usable in most web browsers. In other words, they're bringing a decoder to IE and any that don't support Theora ... if the user has Silverlight/Mono. I see a win/win here, if it's opensourced!