I just got an Ogg Theora / Vorbis encoded video playing back in pure Java using bugger all CPU 
How pleased am I. This means we can do all the FMV in Revenge of the Titans that we were planning to - yay!
When I figure out more about how to do all this - like the playback to an openGL texture for example - Iāll post my findings.
Cas
Very nice!
Maybe you can post some code, so we can work on making it usable āfor everybodyā, with a nice API?
Congratulations! I wouldnāt mind reading more about it ;D
Sounds promising.
More news when I get it all doing what I want it to It will likely end up checked into SPGL on Sourceforge in a horrible state and get fixed sometime in the next 5 years :
Cas
How much cpu and in what computer - besides, is it really pure java i.e. software?
Yes, pure Java, and next-to-no CPU here on my dual 3GHz rig 
Behold!
I feel that this is one of the most significant Java developments in years.
Cas
That was a weird movie but it sucked me in. Is it part of a series?
Impressive playback, better than Flash.
I have a 1Mb adsl at home, and I need to have the option to pause right at the start
and SEE the buffering happening, and know that ok, itās all loaded, I can watch now without the movie stopping at some point. Despite all niggles for Flash, that is one thing it does properly, on any Youtube video, and it should be a standard feature.
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Isnāt that a front-end / UI problem that we control ourselves anyway, or are the movie controls hardcoded? (that would be utter braindead)
Iāve also been looking at how I can play Ogg Theora+Vorbis files in Java.
It seems Cortado is GPL but its com.fluendo.jheora, a Theora decoder, package is LGPL.
com.fluendo.jheora together with the also LGPL com.jcraft.jorbis, a Vorbis decoder and com.jcraft.jogg, an Ogg container parser, allow us to write a pure Java Ogg Theora+Vorbis playerā¦ but we have to write the playback framework on top of this so that audio and video are played in sync.
Youāll be dealing with Ogg pages & packets etcā¦ If you want seeking youāll need to implement a seeking algorithm such as the bisection method, or I guess a more easy to implement look up table.
As everyone else I am very interested to hear and see anything you come up with.
jheora is also used in FMJās Theora-Java. Could be a good idea to check out that project as well.
Great. Uses less CPU than Flash on my Mac. Didnāt see any audio sync issues.
So, Cortado is GPL. Original Ogg/Theora code (and everything else Xiph) is BSD. What are the chances we convince the Cortado devs to switch to BSD?
ran well on pc from 2003 - single core amd athlon 2800+
AFAIK so far (not had time to delve), Cortado is just the player bit on top of the demuxer/decoders for Ogg/Theora/Vorbis. That bitās the least important bit - I wonāt even be using it I donāt think, as I will be decoding directly to Frame Buffer Objects in OpenGL, and I already bung my audio into OpenAL using a customised streaming thingy.
Cas
Thought it about time I stopped lurking around here and actually posted something for a change!
Came across this page recently while doing some research on Cortado for a forthcoming project - http://www.fotosdelpais.com/octavi/pogg/doku.php
This project has ripped out the LGPL compatible parts of Cortado to create an LGPL library for Theora video in Processing and Java. No sound yet(!), but the video example applets are pretty good.
Incidentally, which Cortado code are you using? - there are at least 3 repos I know of!
Best wishes, Neil
Iāve just grabbed something called the āgitā. Smells like open source wankery to me but apparently it has the latest code in it.
No sound is no good to me so Iāll work with that code and see where I get. I wonder what mods they made to Jorbis (which Iām already using) and if theyāre compatible with my current usage.
Cas