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

Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm
Fri Jul 3 11:01:38 UTC 2009


Silly me, I never thought anyone would even consider having a standard
that wasn't completely open.

-Mike

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 00:16 -0700, Falcorian wrote:

> It's not free as it is patent encumbered, see [[H.264#Patent_licensing]].
> 
> --Falcorian
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Mike.lifeguard <mikelifeguard at fastmail.fm>wrote:
> 
> > Purely out of ignorance, why do we like ogg, but not H264? Or is it not
> > that we don't /like/ it, but rather we simply don't support it as a
> > format for whatever reason?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mike
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