Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-13 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The long and short of this is that if we solve this problem today, the solution will be abused as much as the current API, and we'll have to introduce yet another solution when high-res backing stores are common. So instead I'm

Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Robert O'Callahan wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The long and short of this is that if we solve this problem today, the solution will be abused as much as the current API, and we'll have to introduce yet another solution when

Re: [whatwg] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-13 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: There's no practical difference as far as I can tell between hoping that we can reuse the API, and then finding we can't, and introducing a second API for high-res screens; and just giving up now and saying that it's a low-res

Re: [whatwg] Vulgar fractions

2009-06-13 Thread Kristof Zelechovski
Actually aligning vulgar fractions is not even a CSS thing, it is an OpenType thing. Chris

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] getImageData/putImageData comments

2009-06-13 Thread Boris Zbarsky
Boris Zbarsky wrote: It's not that hard, it's an extra four or five lines of code to fill in multiple pixels in a square (two nested for-loops and an expression or two to work out what the limit is). Compared to the maths such code would be doing anyway, this is trivial stuff. The hard part

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