H.264 in Fedora 17!
Luya Tshimbalanga
luya at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 21 01:46:51 UTC 2012
On 20/03/12 02:23 PM, Fedora Video wrote:
>
> Why is Mozilla doing this? It is clear enough: Non-support of H.264
> is making them irrelevant. They've gone from the #1 browser to the #4
> directly as a result of not adopting H.264. H.264 is the only video
> that is good enough for the web and the alternatives are just as
> patented which is why Google did not make good on their commitments to
> deploy them. Even Youtube only offers WebM on a small number of
> unpopular videos: The bandwidth demands of a full WebM deployment
> would put them out of business and would break their site on apple
> devices which don't work if WebM is offered.
>
WebM is actually superiour to H.264, some manufacturers already include
it on their chipsets. The real issue has a lot to do with politics
rather than technologies. As long governements allow corporations to
decide their own way, the biggest losers are the users because of
vendors lock-ins.
You could say the same thing with WMV, AAC yet they are not wildly adopted.
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Luya Tshimbalanga
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