DVD (video) and Fedora

[Kevin Kofler]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> No, they won't be. They're using whatever framework there is on mac and
> they'll be using whatever framework is default on windows. It's no
> different from video intended from download - you rely on the customer
> to install the needed codecs himself.

And this in turn will draw webmasters to Flash (or rather fail to draw them
away from it, the web is already infected with it all over the place),
which has a known set of codecs. :-/

The whole point of having native video support in HTML is that you don't
have to install stuff, so having some known-supported codec is essential.
Therefore, IMHO it was a big mistake that the clause which made Ogg
Theora/Vorbis support mandatory got removed from HTML 5, and the WebKit
approach is not going to be reliable.

Using the native multimedia framework does make sense, but at that point the
browser should be responsible for installing the codecs Xiph.org provides,
not the user.

        Kevin Kofler