Comments on: Demo of deep hyperlinking into HTML5 video

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:29:57 +0000

This is a great move forward no more relying on 3rd party apps and extensions to play video or audio, i have been reading up on HTML 5 at the HTML 5 Tutorials website, i am now playing around with one of the free templates and was wondering how to embed audio, so thanks a lot, great information, lets hope more people lean towards HTML 5 and SOON!!!

By: silvia

silvia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:41:46 +0000

Did you work with the latest checkout of oggz-chop? Some bugs have been fixed recently. Also: You should talk with Conrad Parker (kfish on irc) about patches for oggz-chop – I think he is about to put some major effort into extending it.

By: silvia

silvia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:40:22 +0000

@David I didn’t even test loading of a different ogv file – good to see it just works.

By: Philip Jägenstedt

Philip Jägenstedt — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:08:27 +0000

The spec only says to stop loading the resource, not to throw it out of cache. A note stating as much might be helpful though.

By: silvia

silvia — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:19:34 +0000

I’m not sure the reloading on load() is a bug. I think it may be on purpose because it follows the algorithm specified within HTML5 accurately and there it states that the current resource is unloaded and the resource selection algo is fired on the “new” resource. I think this algorithm may need a comment for changes to the URL that only refer to the hash part of the video.

By: Michael Murtaugh

Michael Murtaugh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:34:18 +0000

Thanks for this post, it’s really exciting seeing all the pieces coming together around OGG / open source video!

> For Ogg media, this can be provided through the oggz-chop CGI.

According to this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liboggz/+bug/415947
It’s maybe still just on the wishlist (unless I missed something?)

In my testing setup on a local apache2 server (ubuntu) and using liboggz-0.9.9, when I enable oggz-chop (using the method provided by the included script), not only is there not x-content-duration, but all my ogv files lose even the Content-Length header and embedded videos appear with the scrubbar constantly all the way to the right (only as the video loads, the duration expands, and the “current position” thus stays always at max)… But it’s quite possible I have mis-configured something?

I am considering writing a small CGI wrapper for oggz-chop to address the issue.

By: David Bolter

David Bolter — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:36:28 +0000

Very cool stuff. I tried loading a different .ogv file (with offset) and it worked like a charm. I’m excited to see how we might harness this in the future for purposes of inclusion and accessibility.

Please make sure that unnecessary re-load has a bug filed

By: Philip Jägenstedt

Philip Jägenstedt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:04:00 +0000

Good work Silvia! The resource reloading on load() seems odd if it’s still in cache. Will have to check if Opera has similar bugs… In any case, basic media fragments support seems pretty straightforward, I hope we will see native implementations (in Opera or elsewhere) soon enough.