On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/8 <j(a)v2v.cc>cc>:
David Gerard wrote:
> "You are using Internet Explorer.
Install the Ogg codecs _here_ for a
> greatly improved Wikimedia experience."
Internet Explorer does not support the video tag,
installing Ogg
DirectShow filters does not help there.
Yes, I realised this just after sending my email :-)
I presume, though, there's some way of playing videos in IE. Is there
a way to tell if the Ogg filters are installed?
Java or via the VLC plugin
At least the safari + xiphqt has the benefit of working as well as
firefox 3.5 does. The same is not true for Java or VLC. (the VLC
plugin is reported to cause many browser crashes, Java is slow to
launch and somewhat CPU hungry)
I've suggested making the same installer for XiphQT for win32 also
install the XiphDS plugins, which would make things easier on users.
But XiphDS does not help with in-browser playback today.
Since, at the moment, firefox is the only non-beta browser with direct
support I don't see why plugging Firefox would be controversial. It's
a matter of fact that it works best with Firefox 3.5 or Safari+XiphQT.
Later when there are several options things will be a little more
complicated. Certainly I don't think any recommendation should be
made when the user already has native-grade playback.