Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video -- informative note?

2009-07-07 Thread Silvia Pfeiffer
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/6 Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com: As of 2009, there is no single efficient codec which works on all modern browsers.  Content producers are encouraged to supply the video in both Theora and H.264 formats, as per the

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video -- informative note?

2009-07-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/6 Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com: As of 2009, there is no single efficient codec which works on all modern browsers.  Content producers are encouraged to supply the video in both Theora and H.264 formats, as per the following example A spec that makes an encumbered format a SHOULD is

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video -- informative note?

2009-07-06 Thread Adam Shannon
The spec (at least from what I know) wants to create a unified experience, we don't want users to have a different experience from browser to browser. Nor do developers want to implement hacks for every browser. If no common ground can be reached then maybe no common ground is better than common

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video -- informative note?

2009-07-05 Thread Adam Shannon
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: | video does support fallback, so in practice you can just use Theora and | H.264 and cover all bases. Could you replace the codec section with at least an informative note to this effect?

Re: [whatwg] Codecs for audio and video -- informative note?

2009-07-05 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Jim Jewett wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: | video does support fallback, so in practice you can just use Theora and | H.264 and cover all bases. Could you replace the codec section with at least an informative note to this effect? Something like, As of 2009, there is