On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit :
http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-make...
So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious)
Can we get a summary?
Summarizing http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html: It seems that there's a yearly cap on the licensing fees for H.264. So Cisco is paying the cap, and then anyone can download binaries implementing the codec from them for free. But there's no redistribution allowed, and of course you have to use some binary library, so presumably Firefox would ask to download the H.264 codec much like it does if you're missing the Flash plugin and go to a page that uses Flash.
All in all, ugh.