Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] web-based ogg player

[John Levin]

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> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:46:52AM +0100, John Levin wrote:
>  
> > Is there such a thing as a web-based ogg player?
> >
> > Something along the lines of XSPF Music Player
> > http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > It's advocacy; if people want to grab that tune off the site, they have 
> > to go along with the format it's in ;)
>
> To use that music player you must have a Flash Player installed.
> To use Ogg Vorbis files directly, you just have to have any music player 
> installed.

Erm, no. Ogg doesn't come bundled in with Windows or OS X, and a number 
of music players don't play ogg out of the box.

> So there isn't much of a difference.

> Apart from one thing: there are very good Free Software players available for playing 
> Ogg Vorbis; while the Free Software player for Flash (gnash) isn't really stable yet.
>
> So I would say, installing a player for Ogg Vorbis is the better option.

But I am serving up the files, for someone else with their own machine. 
I don't have the option to install an ogg player on their box, whereas I 
do have control over my site, which is where I want to put an ogg-player.

There was no suggestion of replacing a desktop app with a web app.

John