arstechnica.com — Google has providing funding to the TheorARM project, an open source Theora decoder that is optimized for the ARM architecture. In an about-face, the company now wants Theora to be the Web's baseline video codec...
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iatealitlebabieApr 12, 2010
I want that watch.
madwhApr 12, 2010
Then go ahead and try to watch katy perry - hot n cold on your iPhone with the youtube app, or I'm On A Boat by lonely island or meet me halfway by black eyed peas or tons of other popular music videos which you can watch on your computer on youtube.
Closed AccountApr 12, 2010
"and a bunch of other sites that obeyed to mighty Apple for video."I find it interesting that Apple wants HTML5 and H264 and open standards when it suits them, but their own website is infested with QuickTime videos, which require that well known malware, QuickTime, to play.
jv2kApr 12, 2010
Click flash content ---> flash full screen ---> double tap click and touch just sets mouse over.It doesn't take a lot of creativity to figure out how to mouse over.
uselesstriviaApr 12, 2010
Youtube re-encoded every video (except ones where the publisher wants to maintain encryption) on youtube in H.264 format specifically so that the iPhone could play them
Closed AccountApr 12, 2010
You are correct, but that's exactly why Google is funding TheorARM - to effectively manage this current limitation, at least on ARM-based chips for now. If you care to, check out the last few paragraphs of this article. While the exact methods are not discussed, it's clear that this limitation is recognized as an issue on the mobile platform, and is being worked out, aided by the simplicity of Theora and the lack of licensing barriers to impede progress.<a class="user" href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-times-for-video-on-web.html" rel="nofollow">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/inte ...</a>
mrbitchApr 12, 2010
@ ileftfark, RE: " .. If you care to, check out the last few paragraphs of this article. While the exact methods are not discussed, it's clear that this limitation is recognized as an issue on the mobile platform, and is being worked out .."I had a look at that article that you linked to :" .. other codecs often require dedicated hardware in devices to help achieve performance targets, but with careful coding Theora can be made to run without this."From the way that reads, it looks like they are still deciding to do video decoding on the main CPU, which will still eat up more battery than using dedicated hardware decoders.This means that mobile devices using Theora will still be sucking up more battery power than a mobile device using a dedicated h.264 hardware decoder.
commodusApr 12, 2010
You can play those Flash games on Windows Mobile because you have a keyboard.What about a Nexus One? An iPhone? Sorry, doesn't work. You just proved my point.
thewindblowsApr 13, 2010
@madwh: There is no advertisements on the HTML5 videos...Once Google develops a common no performance loss API that can be accessed and rendered from Flash or Javascript for advertisements, then all videos can go HTML5. The thing is the resources for programming such an API and HTML5's current capability aren't there or just need more time.And so your aware no Google can't just go ahead and disable advertisements on all videos, it's a legal matter. People pay for those advertisements and get paid, Google can't just go turn their backs on their sponsors, it's business.Also so everyone is aware from what I know Youtube encodes every video to every format used regardless, but they just don't publicly use it.So if you really want all those pages HTML5, for the iPhone, you'll need either a user script or a home proxy, to filter them to their HTML5 equivalent.
thewindblowsApr 13, 2010
/* Assume all conditions are true unless stated otherwise *//* Google will own the Internet */Google > Internet;/* Internet Consist of People */Internet == People;/* World Consist of People */World == People;/* Google makes people happy */if(Google) People = happy; /* Google Owns the Internet and People are happy? */Google > Internet && People == happy;/* Google owns the People and They are happy */Google > People && People == happy;/* ... and they said happiness can't win slavery... */Google > World && People == happy;//???WTF???// Quick 1/d0 while we have a chance.
mrbitchApr 13, 2010
RE: " .. This means that mobile devices using Theora will still be sucking up more battery power than a mobile device using a dedicated h.264 hardware decoder."Buried for fact?