David Gerard wrote:
Forwarded with permission of the author - he emailed
this privately
after a comment on the whatwg list.
Summary: Theora video on iPhone is not going to be easy even with a
volunteer to write it - the first and second generation iPhone/iPodt
Touch CPUs aren't up to the task. So, Theora fans have a new puzzle to
try: get an anaemic ARM to decode Theora fast enough to be useful!
When I asked if I could forward this here, he said to feel free and also noted:
"I've been hanging out in irc to improve ffmpeg's Theora decoder, but
arm11 is going to be especially hard for any Theora decoder due to the
lack of L2 cache and only 16k of L1 data cache."
Thanks for the research & update! Would certainly be interesting to see
if it can be done, even if only on the newer devices.
-- brion