On Oct 31, 2006, at 15:57, Joao Eiras wrote:
VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/) has developed a decoder for their low footprint media player, that decodes all major video formats and others. It's much more stable than a regular codec, because it was made to stream from the internet, being therefore prepared to receive all kinds of garbage in the stream, and still being able to decode the stream. I already had some practical experience with damaged MPEGs which crashed any media playe on my PC, while VLC behaved flawlessly. Eventually, UAs could make default use of VLC's browser plugin, or embed it directly within the browser.
You are talking about the technical properties of VLC. The barriers to shipping VLC binaries with browsers are legal--not technical.
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