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OGG Files support Created Sep 22, 2009

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Howard Briggs
Howard

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OGG Files support

Posted: Sep 22, 2009

Hi
We have developed a solution for the UK Police forces which we be rolling out in the next 2 months.You will receive commercial orders very shortly to cover these licenses.

We have built a video/audio player from Flowlayer 3 and it works exceptionally.

The video is flv and the audio uses mp3 files.
The problem is that the initial audio recording uses speex codec and we save this as an ogg file for minimum file size. As a temporary solution we ouput MP3/ogg from our digital interview unit so that the audio can be streamed from the Police server to Flow Player

I have noticed several request for OGG support in the past and wondered if it was on your development list in the near future.

Many thanks

Regards

Howard Briggs

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» OGG Files support

Posted: Sep 22, 2009

Reply to: OGG Files support, from Howard Briggs
Flowplayer can only use formats that are supported in Flash Player. There is no integrated support for OGG in Flash Player, so that means applications built on Flash cannot play an OGG file.

There ARE some work-arounds (see below) but most I've seen rely on features in Flash version 10, which means a goodly portion of your visitors may not be able to render the files. This same limitation exists if you wish to use Speex directly, which is also not supported in Flash 9 or earlier.

You may wish to research supported audio codecs for Flash on the Adobe Web site.

http://barelyfocused.net/blog/2008/10/03/flash-vorbis-player/

If you wish to fallback to a purely OGG file while still rendering the standard MP3 or Nellymoser codecs for those users who require it, you can use the new HTML5 audio/video tags, and for browsers that support these tags (not IE, any version), and OGG (not Safari) your OGG file will play in the browser's native AV player. You can find fallback code in the wikis and FAQs on this subject on the Mozilla pages. HTML5 features are supported in Firefox 3.5 and later.