[LINK] OGG in Firefox...Re: Firefox users shown to be safer ((but slower!))

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> Also, FF has also incorporated OGG video and audio support. OGG was 
>> dropped from the draft HTML5 standard ealier this year.
>>
>> OGG Vidoe seemed to be working well on a French Laptop over wireless 
>> in Istanbul a little bit back.
>>
>> Linkers might like to sample some Canadian Radio
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.m3u
>> http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr2-toronto.m3u
>> http://ms2.radio-canada.ca/EspaceMusique.ogg
> 
> On Mac OS X, FF 3 does not recognise either the .m3u or .ogg
> streams. It passed them on to iTunes. And iTunes opens them
> and plays nothing. Plug-in required?
> 

You probably need to see if you can bypass iTunes, which is hijacking the
stream. Ogg is native to Firefox on Linux and MSWindows.

> Aside: iTunes does have gret Internet Radio support.
> 
.....maybe your issues with Ogg on a Mac relate to

> "It's official. Ogg technology has been removed from the HTML5 spec, after Ian [ Editors of the HTML5 Spec are Ian Hickson, Google, Inc. David Hyatt, Apple, Inc.] caved in the face of pressure from Apple and Nokia.
<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251>



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