[Foundation-l] No default codec for <video> and <audio> in HTML5

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Brian<Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> It's a shame they couldn't get all vendors to agree to ship both ogg and
> h264 codecs.

No, it's not.  H.264 is patented and you need to pay licensing fees to
use it.  It's not an open standard and should not be used on the web
if it's at all avoidable.  It's possible Mozilla couldn't even legally
ship it, at least if they continue to distribute under the GPL.
(Maybe if they distributed only as LGPL/MPL they could avoid any
issues by making the H.264 part BSD-licensed or something.)