Theora Codec Ported to Java

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."

Comments

Its it just not working for me or...

[Anonymous Coward]

Was linking to a video feed from slashdot's front page a mistake?

Wondering why this hasn't been done previously

[Anonymous Coward]

Given all these reports that Java code can be made almost as quick as c/c++ (especially when number crunching), if not faster, why hasn't this happened before?

Is it just that bit hackers are more comfortable in c?

I would there would be a big benefit to having decoders/endcoders in java. On that note it would be nice if there were one defacto decoder/encode instead of ffmpg, jpegtools, transcode etc.

Sorry for the ramblings, I guess everyone likes to re-invent the wheel ;)

Re: open source with mpeg-4 in Java

[Anonymous Coward]

This guy has been working on an mpeg-4 and mpeg-1 Java player for several years and has said that it will be released within the month. The demos on thsi site, although basic, look promising. His Mpeg-4 video can apparently go full screen given enough cpu. The good bit? it's going open source.

Seriously works!

[Anonymous Coward]

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 /.

Re:Uhmmm Yea....so whats new???

[rokzy]

the people using activex are either:
1. microsoft
2. retarded
3. all of the above

the people using flash are either:
1. 14 years old
2. incredibly annoying
3. advertisers

Looks great and loads quick

[spludge]

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.

Same Idea but with BitTorrent

[KrackHouse]

The guys at BannedMusic.org are using a similar system to make it simple to use BitTorrent. This combination of technologies could be the kick in the butt that Open Source needs to reach the mainstream.

A quote:
The best solution seemed to be a simple modification of BitTorrent: an installer that runs BitTorrent and begins download of an included torrent file. Windows users can click on the "Easy Download" button on an album's download page to get a 3mb executable. When they launch this executable it installs BitTorrent (which happens very quickly in the background) and immediately begins downloading the album they were seeking. After they've used the "easy download" once, they can simply click on the .torrent files to begin downloading. And they'll be able to use other sites that require BitTorrent.

Re:Slashdotters will agree...

[mcrbids]

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...

Re:gmail invites

[wtay]

we've put up another mirror at http://194.78.112.13:8080/cortado/index.html The main site is pulling about 55Mbit/sec and is saturating at 2403 peak clients, it's still alive and kicking though :) enjoy! the fluendo team.