Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
My last post covered read Ogg files using libogg. The resulting program didn't do much but it covered the basic steps needed to get an ogg_packet which we need to decode the data in the stream. The thing step I want to cover is decoding Theora streams using libtheora. In the previous post I stored a count of the number... more →
Reading data from an Ogg file is relatively simple. The file format is well documented in RFC 3533. I showed how to read the format using JavaScript in a previous post. For C and C++ programs it's easier to use the xiph.org libraries. There are libraries for decoding specific formats (libvorbis, libtheora) and there is a library for reading data... more →
On tinyvid.tv I do quite a bit of server side reading of Ogg files to get things like duration and bitrate information when serving information about the media. I wondered if it would be possible to do this sort of thing using JavaScript running in the browser. The format of the Ogg container is defined in RFC 3533. The difficulty... more →
Kroc Camen has made available Video for Everybody, an HTML snippet that uses HTML 5 video if it's available in the browser, otherwise falling back to different video playback options. What's interesting about 'Video for Everybody' is it doesn't use scripting at all. It uses the fallback mechanism built into HTML. The video playback mechanism used, in order of availability... more →
I've been playing around with different commenting engines on tinyvid. Currently I use Intense Debate. An example of a video using this comment system is here. I like this service a lot. You can sign on with OpenId, the moderation tools are good and it seems to be generally reliable. Intense Debate has support for plugins that anyone can write.... more →