On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Just thought I'd check in on what it'll take
to get it going. No immediate
rush, but.... I'd really love to have videos working on smartphones and
tablets, and not everybody runs Firefox. :)
As a recap, this is about expanding video support to include h.264,
which is patent-encumbered (licensing fees are charged for some uses
of the format). Cf.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_video_codec_policy
Since there are multiple potential paths for changing the policy
(keeping things ideologically pure, allowing conversion on ingestion,
allowing h.264 but only for mobile, allowing h.264 for all devices,
etc.), and since these issues are pretty contentious, it seems like a
good candidate for an RFC which'll help determine if there's an
obvious consensus path forward.
Any takers for advancing the community conversation?
Erik
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