On 19 June 2012 00:30, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
<warning: patent politics question may lead to
offtopic bikeshedding>
Additionally there's the question of adding H.264 transcode *output*, which
would let us serve video to mobile devices and to Safari and IE 9 without
any custom codec or Java installations. As far as I know that's not a huge
technical difficulty but still needs to be decided politically, either
before or after an initial rollout of TMH.
</warning>
It's entirely unclear to me that this is intrinsically related. Just
because we can doesn't say anything about whether we should. e.g. we
could easily allow H.264 uploads now, but we don't.
- d.