On 19 June 2012 00:30, Brion Vibber brion@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.
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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.