Extension talk:OggHandler/Client download

Please protect this page from editing; it's linked from multiple sources and therefore strongly exposed to vandalism. Also consider preparing translations of this page; you can find Polish one here: Extension:OggHandler/Client download/pl. --Derbeth talk 20:35, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Java
I have Java installed and the Cortado applet is not automatically displayed. Regards. --193.145.201.52 10:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Winamp
What about Winamp? It plays .ogg, it should be here.

Translations
This page needs to be translated and the extension modified to direct people to the page in the language of the wiki referencing it.alnokta

slightly confusing
The first time I looked at the page wanting to get XiphQT, I clicked on the download for Apple QuickTime (which I already have). Maybe there is a way of making it slightly more obvious for the not so up to speed users, that it's not only Apple QuickTime that you need, but that you also need to download XiphQT itself. --88.217.9.23 18:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Still confusing
I came here from wikipedia when I tried to play the 2 second ogg video at Roundhay_Garden_Scene from Firefox 3, and I saw this page has a link to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and the text "Open source media player and browser plugin." However the page at VLC does not mention any plugin. I already have and use VLC, but an older version of 0.86f. Could more detailed explanation be given. I am downloading the new VLC version in any case, but I do not think that will change how Firefox behaves. -78.14.224.48 15:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe the text is not so confusing. I first uninstalled the old VLC 0.86f, and then downloaded the latest VLC version 0.9.4. After closing all browsers, I started the VLC install and noticed a checkbox for "Mozilla plugin", so I clicked it to enable it. After installation, I find Firefox can now play ogg files with a choice of players: Cortado (Java), QuickTime, and Browser plugin. Firefox "about:plugins" now lists VLC Multimedia Plug-in. So all is well again! -78.14.224.48 15:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Where are the previous codecs?
When trying to listen to an Ogg Vorbis file through the website, when you followed the link to set the software up on a computer, there used to be a Windows Media codec and one that mentioned Winamp. Instead, there's just some Java thing, some seperate player and the intrusive system hog from Apple. Banaticus 07:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Where is the easiest-solution for 95% of the world's computer users?  Wikipedia's anti-MS agenda has no bounds.  Why the hell would installing Firefox be a valid solution when a WM codec would be simplest?

Suggestions
Not able to edit this page, since it is locked. I suggest adding links to the Xiph.org Directshow Filters, for Windows XP and Windows Vista visitors. Also, let's suggest a more lightweight multimedia player, in addition to the patented-codec-heavy VLC player.

10.137.17.209
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Smart phone
What can I use to see the videos on my Nokia 5800. It uses Flash Player 9 (update to 10 version is unable) and Real Player.--88.28.46.68 09:37, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Which Linux fatbeard dreamed this one up?
Ogg files? Seriously? Why wouldn't wikipedia favor usability over some fatbeards desire to push his favorite, unused, geek format?


 * Wikipedia is a hive of type-A know-it-alls, as a result, whatever minority choice they make is defended with zeal.


 * My reason for opposing Ogg files is slightly different: it is not generally supported by media (or sound) playing software. David spector 17:07, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Love some of the open source practices, hate some of the zealotry that goes along with. This is the same mindset that had/has a lot of open source projects stuck in the "config file" answer.  You can control anything....  just edit a config file.  There are two facets of usability that need to be reconciled here... and in my opinion, treated as priorities above adherance to a specific technical architecture:


 * 1) Computer 'ownership' - the browser of this page often will not, for all intents and purposes, 'own' the computer they are using - they might not legally own it, it could be a kiosk, an employers, etc., or by some explicit or implicit contract they can not modify it - a smart phone that is not supported with certain software
 * 2) Fickle viewer - upon viewing a page with a video, 99.999% of viewers will do one of two thing - watch the video because it works, or leave the page, or site altogether, because it doesn't.  We are the vast, vast minority that will even begin to wade into figuring out what an 'Ogg Handler' might be.  To the extent the goal is to drive viewers away... this accomplishes exactly that.

Internet Explorer and Opera
There is no plugin for Internet Explorer and Opera. Useddrawn1 05:06, 26 December 2009 (UTC)…

Ogg doesn't work in Firefox 3.0.17
Ogg doesn't work in Firefox 3.0.17. Clicking an Ogg-playing button just results in the error message ''Sorry, your system does not appear to have any supported player software. Please download a player.'' Firefox is supposed to support "ogg theora" (sic) without a download.

Please either fix Ogg support in Firefox or switch to another sound file format. Thank you. David spector 17:14, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Ditto. I was able to go to java.sun.com and see applets running, but the Cortado(sic?) applet no longer works. Used to work fine (months ago). Platform is: FreeBSD 7.0; Firefox 3.0.1; Intel x86

what about chrome?
82.166.154.173 17:30, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

huh?
Sorry, your system does not appear to have any supported player software - supported by whom? Most other sites seem to work with audio/video with no problem. Using Internet Explorer, if that's the issue, but this page doesn't list any help resources for it.

untrue and incomplete information given!!!
Main text here is: You are probably reading this page because you don't have a video or audio player supported by MediaWiki's OggHandler extension. This is then not true, when you have such a software installed, but you use MS-IE and have ActiveX turned off! So please change that to: You are probably reading this page because you don't have a video or audio player supported by MediaWiki's OggHandler extension 'ready for use. Please turn it on (by turning on ActiveX etc.) or' download one of the following browsers / players we recommend:

HTML5
Isn't this supposed to start working without installing any plug-ins with HTML5? Can the video be streamed as either MP3 or similar, depending on what is already installed?

XiphQT discontinued
https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/


 * Latest News.


 * 13.06.2016 - XiphQT discontinued


 * Seven years have passed since the last release of XiphQT and now, the time has come where we have to announce that there will not be any new releases of XiphQT.


 * The reason we are discontinuing XiphQT is that the API it was using, QTKit, was marked deprecated in OS X 10.9, therefore XiphQT was only working with Quicktime 7 and not with Quicktime X. Apple never provided any API which offered similar features to extend codec/format supports like QTKit did, so there is no way to transition the code to a newer Framework. With macOS 10.12 coming soon, QTKit will be removed completely.


 * Quicktime 7 for Windows was recently, according to Trend Micro deprecated as well.

--76.220.56.213 03:57, 24 July 2016 (UTC)