> There is the One Way To Rule Them All. It's the <video> element.
> Right now however only nightly builds of Firefox, Konqueror, Opera
> (not public), and Safari (requires XiphQT to be installed) work. It
> is unfortunately that it will take a couple of years to get there, so
> til that happens, you are pretty much stuck with Cortado.
> Developers can help speed this process by helping as many browsers
> (and their forks) get Ogg support as possible.
Thanks for the info.
I've been looking into the <video> element.
Quick questions: so would a browser like Firefox have an embedded
player included to play Ogg...or does it just check what player you
have to handle it?
Jay
The best thing to use is actually mv_embed from
http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/01/29/mv_embed-6/ . It lets you use the "video" tag anywhere you like, but provides a very flexible _javascript_ library that dissolves that to whatever capabilities your browser has that are best matched. I.e. if you have a browser that is Ogg Theora capable, it will use that capability to decode. If you have no Ogg Theora decoder, it will use cortado etc. Check it out and see how easy it is! The guys at metavid really do some awesome stuff!
Cheers,
Silvia.