[IAEP] Programming Needs?

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

One programming project that would help us is described in

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495727

Essentially, Firefox 3.5 will ship with beautiful support for Ogg
Theora+Vorbis video in every webpage, using the HTML5 <video> tag.
Unfortunately, it will almost certainly be deadly slow on the XO and other
low-power computers we care about, because it uses a pure software,
completely unaccelerated playback pipeline, just like Flash.

The fix is to implement a Firefox/Xulrunner extension that plays back
videos in a separate window using XVideo, with the option to go
full-screen, etc.  For anyone familiar with Firefox extensions this would
not be hard at all, and would be a big win for us, thanks to sites like
openvideo.dailymotion.com.  The educational implications are substantial,
in my opinion.

--Ben

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