Summary of Reddit thread

Tue Apr 7 10:36:56 UTC 2015

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.

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.