Hello,<br><br>I was thinking about replacing the flash player in mythweb with the new <video> element. I searched the myth-users and -dev lists and didn't really see much about it other then, "it's not widely supported". Which is understandable, but I think it should be an option at least.<br>
<br>Last night I was messing around with ffmpeg2theora and was able to convert a couple of .nuv's into .ogv's and was able to display them in a browser. It was surprisingly straightforward. <br><br>So I'm thinking about making a patch to mythweb where if you have a supported browser, the right codec, and the actual .ogv file, then use the <video> tag, otherwise fallback to the flash methods.<br>
<br>Just wondering if there's any interest in this as there are still a couple of issues. I think the .flv conversion happens on-the-fly when you load up the video. ffmpeg2theora is kinda slow and I'm not sure if it can happen in real-time. Creating a user-job to run ffmpeg2theora on every video will solve this but then you're going to basically have a bunch of .ogv files lying around... I figured I'd get the <video> tag to show up first and then worry about the long-term issues later. <br>
<br>--Ajay<br><br><br>