Sorry to be a pain, but I notice FLAC isn't mentioned up there. This is a bit of a showstopper for me, in terms of my entire music collection has been painstakingly (over months) been ripped to FLAC, and I want to play that music in Firefox OS on my ZTE Open. Is FLAC just forgotten from the list or unsupported?
On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 03:29:44 UTC, Chris Double wrote: > Mozilla supports various codecs in HTML media across Firefox OS, > > Android and Desktop. Currently we support the following (feel free to > > add if I've missed any): > > > > H.264 in an MP4 container on Firefox OS, some Android devices and > > planned for desktop > > AAC in an MP4 container on Firefox OS, some Android devices and > > planned for desktop > > MP3 on Firefox OS, some Android devices and planned for desktop > > WAV on all platforms > > Opus in an Ogg container on all platforms > > Vorbis in an Ogg and WebM container on all platforms > > Theora in an Ogg container on all platforms > > VP8 in a WebM container on all platforms > > > > These are the formats that Mozilla has generally decided to support > > "on the web". That is, a web developer can expect to provide a video > > element with one of these formats as the source and expect it to > > play,if not now then at some point in the future. > > > > Recently there has been requests to support other formats, > > particularly on Firefox OS. In the mobile world some devices have > > cameras that record video in 3GPP format, and audio in other formats. > > MMS messages can also contain video in 3GPP format. For Firefox OS we > > would want to be able to play these formats if they are produced or > > received by the device. While we want the support in Firefox OS we > > don't necessarily want these formats to be supported on the wider web. > > We want to reduce format proliferation. This makes interoperability > > easier and reduces the decisions needed by web developers when they > > want a video to play cross platform and cross browser successfully. > > > > To enable Firefox OS to support formats that we don't want to support > > in the wider web I think we should restrict these formats such that > > they play only via local files or local apps on the device. The > > Firefox OS device may be able to play a 3GPP file in the devices video > > app for example, but not in a video element on a normal web page. RTSP > > support should spawn the a local video player to play it, and not play > > RTSP via audio elements on the wider web. > > > > When there is a desire to support a new format we should first > > consider if our existing formats cover the required use cases. If > > there is a need, due to device requirements or the like, we should > > limit the playback such that we don't increase format proliferation > > across all operating systems, devices and browsers. > > > > If you have any comments on this approach, feel free to reply here and > > start a discussion. In particular I'm interested in if this approach > > works in a world with possible partner requirements or other > > commercial conflicts with Firefox OS. > > > > -- > > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
