Hardware-Accelerated Ogg Theora For Firefox Mobile

An anonymous reader writes "Matthew Gregan is working on bringing David Schleef's DSP accelerated port of Theora to Firefox Mobile. He writes on his blog: 'The C64x+ DSP is often found in systems built upon TI's OMAP3 SoC, such as the Palm Pre, Motorola Droid, and Nokia N900. Last year, Mozilla funded a port, named Leonora, of Xiph's Theora video codec to the TI C64x+ DSP. David Schleef conducted the port impressively quickly and published his results. The intention of this project was to provide a high-quality set of royalty-free media codecs for a common mobile computing platform. The initial focus is Firefox Mobile on the N900, so I am working on integrating David's work into Firefox. To experiment with other facilities Firefox could use to accelerate video playback, and test integration, I've been hacking on a branch of a stand-alone Ogg Theora and Vorbis player originally written by Chris Double called plogg.'"

Comments

Is English your 2nd language?

[aristotle-dude]

They made their point quite clearly.

They can't embed the codec and remain truly Free software.

Second, while they could link to platform-provided codecs, it's a support nightmare.

Third, it would legitimize patented crap.

It is you who has no idea. Software can be free "gratis" but it is property and therefore cannot have "rights and freedoms". People have right and freedoms which can be extended by licenses by the original rights holders.

They could add H264 support as a plug-in which would have its code stored in an external project which only mozilla staff would have access to. Mozilla could kick off official builds which had the plugin packaged with it while unofficial builds from the community would lack the plugin. Mozilla could also offer the plugin as a separate download either "free" or for a nominal fee to cover licensing costs.

Linking in support for windows 7 and OS X would be trivial. Linux support is platform issue and not the problem of mozilla if they go this route.

It is not crap and it is already legitimized. It has support of HD Cameras everywhere, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Blu-ray. Shall I go on? It is a licensed standard and now the defacto standard for video.

Re:Is English your 2nd language?

[hairyfeet]

And you don't have the balls to post as anything but an Anon coward? Sigh...Can we PLEASE cut the bullshit? This is the SAME circle jerk argument that we get we anyone talks about codecs, to writ the "codec foo is just a container!" bullshit. Frankly I don't give a wet fart what the specs are, what I care about is what is actually being put on the web, mmmkay?

Just as an avi is NOT a container but an Xvid or Divx video, since that is what 99.9995% of the world has decided it is, so is HTML V5 video Theora. Okay dumbass? Is that really that hard to understand? So keep your circle jerk that does exactly jack and squat, accept that HTML V5 is what the spec says, which I quote "User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format." Which as I pointed out in HTML V5 runs like dogshit on anything but multicores.

So why don't YOU learn what it is that is actually going on, get your own UserID, and then come back when you have something other than more pedantic circle jerk bullshit to try to look knowledgeable, mmmkay?