Ogg Theora in your Webpage

February 3rd, 2007

Update mv_embed.02 has been released its a bit more user friendly and has the latest cortado player.

In response to a request the mv_embed code has been packaged as a stand alone component. This should enable its usage on other sites that want to embed ogg theora clips without those annoying plug-in install requests from the browser that point to non-existing auto install systems.

Mv embed has been tested in windows on (IE 6 (activeX vlc) IE 6(java), Firefox 2(vlc plugin), Firefox 2(java), Opera(java) … on linux: Konqueror (java), firefox(java) … If people find other platforms or combinations that do not work let me know about & if it’s the script’s fault I will see what I can do Often we are limited by the java applet framework which has a few issues… As established in the FOMS meeting: we really need native ogg theora support in firefox & an IE compatible theora plugin.

Future features for mv_embed could include detection of the mplayer plugin (which I would recommend over the vlc browser plugin for linux users), generally enhance it to be more css style friendly, playhead control for vlc plugin (as demoed in tests here & on the vlc site) & maybe integrate the code as a plugin for various CMS and blogging software.

Also check out iTheora (French) project which performs a similar function to the mv_embed script.

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