Summary of Reddit thread

[Bastien Nocera]

----- 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.
> 
> 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.