On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)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.
>
> 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.
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.