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[drago01]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs. Chrome
>> > will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome.
>> >
>> > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.
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>> One of those is youtube (vp8/9) besides .. we could play h264 on a
>> large amount of hardware if our browsers would be using the GPU for
>> decoding (through vdpau or vaapi) with drivers installed.
>> So its not (only) a patent issue.
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> It's only a patent issue, because, bugs notwithstanding, we can't even ship
> the intel libva driver in Fedora.

True for intel but not for others but anyway as you said in the other
mail it is worthless without audio support.