IE 6 is dropping fast, but a very poor showing for Opera and Safari. The OS stats are dominated by Windows XP (62%) and Vista (33%), with OS X and other flavours of Windows taking the remaining few percent. No Linux at all sadly.
Aria in the UK have modified a few of my comments. I've written something along the lines of "Nice product, but..." and the negative part never makes it to the site, making it look like I was nothing but happy with it. I don't buy from them much anymore.
Doesn't matter how good the lock is if they don't use it properly. You might have the best keypad entry system in the world, but if the entry code is 12345 then who's fault is it when someone gets in?
Not to mention the lack of hardware acceleration makes it pretty much a non starter
You say this, but nowhere do you say why it needs hardware acceleration. Have you even tried it? My fairly old machine plays a 1080p Theora video just fine. A completely unscientific test with top shows about 33% CPU usage, peeking at about 40%. The same machine cannot decode 1080p H.264 video in real time.
Theora just isn't as CPU greedy as H.264 -- it doesn't need hardware acceleration. Although it wouldn't hurt;-)
Apple refused to support ogg because it's technically inferior and they didn't want to put dev effort into something worse than they already have
I don't believe this is true. They've mentioned the potential for submarine patents as a reason for not using it. If this could be made clearer for them, there's no technical reason why they couldn't support the format. Heck, Webkit already supports the <video> tag and adding a Theora decoder would be trivial for an apple developer. A few hours work.
Regarding quality -- yes it's not just as good, but they don't have to promote the format. They just have to decode it. If a website is using Theora (mine does!) then it'll look the same regardless if they're using Safari or Mozilla, it's not like Apple will be worse off for it. And the difference isn't that great -- it's not like JPEG vs. JPEG2000, and we're still not using JPEG2000.
It's supported by the usbvideo driver on linux, and appears as two separate devices. As far as I know that's exactly what it is - two separate cameras with a USB hub built into the case. The anaglyph image is generated entirely in the Windows software. I'm working on adding that to fswebcam at the moment.
BT Vision is awful. Depressing and misleading adverts, the sales people on the phone lie to get you to sign up, no lives channels beyond the standard Freeview stuff, poor image quality and even after paying your monthly subscription you still can't access most of their online content without paying extra. The sooner it goes away the better.
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I decided to collect some stats for the trade services section of my companies website. Our typical customer is *not* technically minded in the least:
MSIE 8.0, 38.4%
MSIE 7.0, 33.8%
Firefox/3.5, 9.5%
MSIE 6.0, 9.1%
Chrome 9, 8.4%
Firefox/3.0, 3.0%
Safari 4, 1.5%
IE 6 is dropping fast, but a very poor showing for Opera and Safari. The OS stats are dominated by Windows XP (62%) and Vista (33%), with OS X and other flavours of Windows taking the remaining few percent. No Linux at all sadly.
You're assuming that the same people who work on Thunderbird also work on these projects?
(They might well be... I don't know!)
Aria in the UK have modified a few of my comments. I've written something along the lines of "Nice product, but ..." and the negative part never makes it to the site, making it look like I was nothing but happy with it. I don't buy from them much anymore.
Doesn't matter how good the lock is if they don't use it properly. You might have the best keypad entry system in the world, but if the entry code is 12345 then who's fault is it when someone gets in?
That's OggKate's job. It also works with any other Ogg embedded video codec.
For some sites, H.264 licensing costs may end up being more than any savings on bandwidth.
You say this, but nowhere do you say why it needs hardware acceleration. Have you even tried it? My fairly old machine plays a 1080p Theora video just fine. A completely unscientific test with top shows about 33% CPU usage, peeking at about 40%. The same machine cannot decode 1080p H.264 video in real time.
Theora just isn't as CPU greedy as H.264 -- it doesn't need hardware acceleration. Although it wouldn't hurt ;-)
I don't believe this is true. They've mentioned the potential for submarine patents as a reason for not using it. If this could be made clearer for them, there's no technical reason why they couldn't support the format. Heck, Webkit already supports the <video> tag and adding a Theora decoder would be trivial for an apple developer. A few hours work.
Regarding quality -- yes it's not just as good, but they don't have to promote the format. They just have to decode it. If a website is using Theora (mine does!) then it'll look the same regardless if they're using Safari or Mozilla, it's not like Apple will be worse off for it. And the difference isn't that great -- it's not like JPEG vs. JPEG2000, and we're still not using JPEG2000.
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It's supported by the usbvideo driver on linux, and appears as two separate devices. As far as I know that's exactly what it is - two separate cameras with a USB hub built into the case. The anaglyph image is generated entirely in the Windows software. I'm working on adding that to fswebcam at the moment.
It's a standard USB video device, so already works on Linux. All you need is software to create an anaglyph image from the two cameras.
That's its name these days. Nobody, not even themselves, call it "British Telecom".
Nothing to do with the BBC. It's on Channel 4. ;-)
The only good program on the entire channel
Even mutant turtles get better broadband than me.
Because Google, Apple and MS are not the Internet. Why should I have to pay fees for the right to put a video on my site?
Er, no. They're carrying traffic for their (paying) customer.
Unless your living on Mars or in the Sahara, dust isn't a problem.
BT Vision is awful. Depressing and misleading adverts, the sales people on the phone lie to get you to sign up, no lives channels beyond the standard Freeview stuff, poor image quality and even after paying your monthly subscription you still can't access most of their online content without paying extra. The sooner it goes away the better.
So it's open, as in a mouse trap... ?
Your a leaf on the what?
More to the point ... why should I have to?
Your right, it's SyFy!
So you'd get all of the disadvantages of Windows, while simultaneously loosing the only real advantage it has, plentiful software. Smart.
Ah, you said "control the country" and I thought you meant the UK, not just England. That makes sense, and yes - I agree that's a problem.
In some cases (at least the test cases that I used), Theora looked better for low bitrate (~800kbps) streams than Dirac.