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By not supporting h264 it helps prevent that codec from becoming the standard. If Firefox were to support ogg/h264 and everyone else supported only h264 then no
by davidblair 17y ago
By not supporting h264 it helps prevent that codec from becoming the standard. If Firefox were to support ogg/h264 and everyone else supported only h264 then no one would bother with the ogg support. The format war would be lost at that point.
- AlexMax 17y agoWhat "format war"? Everyone already standardized on h264 years ago, and there is a built in h264 decoder on damn near everything these days. Keeping two copies of every movie would be a waste of CPU cycles, disk space and bandwidth (Theora videos are bigger than their h264 equivalents). Dropping support for h264 in favor of Ogg is also not an option due to h264 being in everything.