2008/11/20 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
2008/11/20 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>om>:
> The Vorbis in Flash (10) examples that Erik linked
to above were
> created by reimplementing Vorbis decoding in other programming
> languages specifically targeted at flash. While that approach is
> likely to produce higher performance results it takes a large amount
> of developer resources to create and maintain. With Alchemy Flash can
> make use of the existing reference code.
Both are definitely worth looking into. I think
performance should be
a key criterion here - we want something that can play on low end
systems at reasonable load levels. I've reached out to the developers
of the aforementioned implementations to see if they're interested in
helping towards getting this to run on Wikimedia; if you see
developers working on related projects for Vorbis & Theora, please let
me know.
If a .swf served by us works in Gnash even though we know 99.9% of
users will in fact be using it in Adobe Flash, is that free software
enough for us, morally as well?
- d.