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Theora Codec Ported to Java

Posted by michael on from the netflicks dept.

fons writes "These guys have ported the Theora codec to Java. This means that ANY Java-capable browser can now be used to watch video streams on the net (clients don't have to download a player!). You can watch a demo showing some boring guys sitting in the office. At least the music is ok :) On their site you can find a link to an interesting interview with the boss, and it looks like more cool stuff is coming soon."

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  1. Seriously works! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For some reason it seems to load faster than realplayer, quicktime or windows media player.

    I am using Java 5 RC which for me GUI program feel faster than .Net apps like RSS Bandit! Its actually a real option for anyone wanting to stream video.

    Also, please note I do feel dirty calling it Java 5...

    And nice work putting a video stream on the front page! Thats nice and considerate /.

  2. Looks great and loads quick by spludge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just tried it in both Firefox and IE. It looks great (sounds good too) and it loads really quickly! I hope sites start switching to this rather than using real media or WMV streams for windows media player.

  3. Re:Slashdotters will agree... by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I do not agree. Having a java codec for browsers may as well be having no codec at all. Reasoning:

    1) The only users that allow their browser to run java are those that either don't know how to disable it, or don't know what it is....<SNIP>
    And I would put you squarely into the LATTER category. Or, were you not aware of what a JVM "sandbox" is?
    2. Java is slow and gobbles up resources....
    So is Windows. So is KDE. So is perl, PHP, Ruby, GLibc, and about a zillion others. Perhaps you should read up on the realities of so-called "BLOAT"?

    The fact is that faster computers have not really resulted in us running the same programs faster. It's resulted in us running bigger, fancier programs at the same speed we always have.

    It took about 3 minutes for my 20 Mhz 286 to boot up. It takes about that long for my 2 Ghz Athlon to do the same.

    What's the difference? Go on back and USE that 80286 AT for a while, and tell me what that software "bloat" really got you...
    --
    I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.