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1 Nov 2023

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• 18:42
  tomman
  bugzilla.mozilla.org/1860492 two sides of the same coin:
• 18:42
  tomman
  1) did people actually bothered using Theora in the real world? (and when I say "people", I mean "non rabid FOSS nerds hosting videos of their conferences")
• 18:43
  tomman
  2) "We're removing it because Chrome did it first" is a stupid excuse, as usual
• 19:01
  jonadab
  FLAC gets a lot of use, but I don't know as much about Theora.
• 19:02
  jonadab
  Honestly, I don't think a web browser needs to support every video format people use. THat's what media players are for.
• 19:03
  jonadab
  Unless someone knows of a substantial video-stream-hosting website that uses it, I can't see users caring to view Theora content in a browser.
• 19:03
  jonadab
  I mean, somebody somewhere will want to, for the same reason people use Word to send email, but.
• 19:58
  therube
  2) - the answer to everything :-)
• 20:00
  therube
  1) ogg vorbis audio, yes, theora itself, can't say i've run into that.
• 20:00
  therube
  forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=ec…ef017cb8d6901&p=1984828#post1984828
• 20:41
  tomman
  I still believe that videos do NOT belong to web browsers, but to actual media players
• 20:42
  tomman
  it was a bad idea in 1998, and remains a bad idea in 2023, but apparently kids have got used to it so much that I'm now deemed a old grumpy boomer dinosaur
• 20:42
  tomman
  mastodon.social/@jwz/111328891337299925 well, apparently JWZ doesn't share my opinion, so *plonk* him
• 21:13
  frg_Away
  tomman I like to watch trailers, previews and some repairt or other tips in the browser. But for actual content longer than a few minutes not my cup of tea.