Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-17 Thread Maik Merten
Hi Chris, I provide an additional comparison at http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/youtube/ using different content. This doesn't qualify as more movement/action (it's hard to get free HD samples of such content in good quality), but content like the one I used is common nonetheless on community

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-15 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Michael Dale d...@ucsc.edu wrote: I have requested that a few times as well... Some went so far to even make a mock up page: http://people.xiph.org/~j/apple/preview/ It would or course be much more ideal if we could get the component into quicktime codec

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-14 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: We certainly believe so, but I'm certainly not qualified to evaluate the different techniques. Would Theora inherently be any less able to than any other codec system, though?  I hope you're not saying that it has to be

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-14 Thread Chris DiBona
Hi greg; I'll pass this on, it's a good post. Have you considered other kinds of video tests as well? (something cell shaded, more movement/action, etc...) as it stands, it's useful, with more examples, it might be more convincing as an argument for Theora. Chris On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:15

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-14 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/14 Chris DiBona cdib...@gmail.com: I'll pass this on, it's a good post. Have you considered other kinds of video tests as well? (something cell shaded, more movement/action, etc...) as it stands, it's useful, with more examples, it might be more convincing as an argument for Theora.

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-14 Thread King InuYasha
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Simon Spiegel si...@simifilm.ch wrote: On 14.06.2009, at 04:02, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: As for Safari and any other software on the Mac that is using the QuickTime framework, there is XiphQT to provide support. It's a QuickTime component and therefore no

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Dale
I have requested that a few times as well... Some went so far to even make a mock up page: http://people.xiph.org/~j/apple/preview/ It would or course be much more ideal if we could get the component into quicktime codec lookup system. Is there any criteria or process that has been made

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Chris DiBona
Comparing Daily Motion to Youtube is disingenuous. If yt were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet. The most recent public number was just over 1 billion video streams a day, and I've seen

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: Comparing Daily Motion to Youtube is disingenuous. Much less so than comparing promotion of H.264-in-video via Google's sites and client to support for legacy proprietary content via plugin APIs, I would say. But also, I

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: I tried funding dirac a while back, to some good end, and we provide students, but here's the challenge: Can theora move forward without infringing on the other video compression patents? We certainly believe so, but I'm

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Chris DiBona
We certainly believe so, but I'm certainly not qualified to evaluate the different techniques. Would Theora inherently be any less able to than any other codec system, though?  I hope you're not saying that it has to be H.264 forever, given the spectre of the streaming license changes at the

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: No, but it is what I worry about. How agressive will mpeg.la be in their interpretation of the direction that theora is going? I don't think that is a reason to stop the current development direction (or the funding of it)

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: actually shipping with Theora (also on android, too) I was looking for a reference to this, but haven't found anything yet. http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html lists Vorbis, but not Theora, and I

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Chris DiBona
Let me ask David Sparks and see where it went, I remember we had it in the inital drops, or thought we did. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mike Shavermike.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: actually shipping with Theora (also on

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: Let me ask David Sparks and see where it went, I remember we had it in the inital drops, or thought we did. That'd be great -- all I can find reference to is Vorbis, as used for the ringtones and system sounds (righteous!)

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Håkon Wium Lie
Also sprach Chris DiBona: I don't think the bandwidth delta is very much with recent (and format-compatible) improvements to the Theora encoders, if it's even in H.264's favour any more, but I'd rather get data than share suppositions.  Can you send me a link to raw video for the clip

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Maik Merten
Mike Shaver wrote: b) bandwidth concerns (but even if Theora took _double_ the bandwidth, and _all_ the content was converted overnight, that's still only a 25% increase in bandwidth, plus a few percent for Chrome when it ships video as well) Actually, looking at

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Chris DiBona
It'll take a little while, I'm travelling a bit this month (brazil , new york, etc..) Chris On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Håkon Wium Liehowc...@opera.com wrote: Also sprach Chris DiBona:   I don't think the bandwidth delta is very much with recent (and   format-compatible) improvements

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Maik Merten
Gregory Maxwell wrote: Perhaps then you wouldn't mind sharing the rough breakdown of how many YouTube distributed videos are the 'high quality' files which are encoded in H.264 and only provided on user-request vs the normal quality, which is provided by default, and which doesn't use H.264.

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Mike Shaver
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: It'll take a little while, I'm travelling a bit this month (brazil , new york, etc..) Yep, I'll reach out to the o3d guys directly as well, see if they have the source video for that clip. More than happy to do the

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread King InuYasha
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Maik Merten maikmer...@googlemail.comwrote: Mike Shaver wrote: Yep, I'll reach out to the o3d guys directly as well, see if they have the source video for that clip. More than happy to do the measurements on this side, I know what a pain travel can be...

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/13 Mike Shaver mike.sha...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: No, but it is what I worry about. How agressive will mpeg.la be in their interpretation of the direction that theora is going? I don't think that is a reason to stop the current

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Frank Hellenkampjo...@depagecms.net wrote: [snip] Well, the thing is (perhabs unfortunately because of patents and liscensing) that you can use h264 with the video tag (in safari and chrome), but at the same time you can send the same video to every old browser

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Maik Merten
Frank Hellenkamp wrote: Well, the thing is (perhabs unfortunately because of patents and liscensing) that you can use h264 with the video tag (in safari and chrome), but at the same time you can send the same video to every old browser with the flash player 9 or 10, because it also supports

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Mike Shavermike.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: If Youtube is held back by client compatibility, they should be glad that we're working hard to move ~25% of the web to having Theora support in the

Re: [whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris DiBonacdib...@gmail.com wrote: Comparing Daily Motion to Youtube is disingenuous. If yt were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet. [snip] I'm not

[whatwg] H.264-in-video vs plugin APIs

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Shaver
Apologies for the poor threading, I wasn't subscribed when the message here was sent. In http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020237.html Chris DiBona wrote: The incredibly sucky outcome is that Chrome ships patent-encumbered open web features, just like Apple. That