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> Mozilla and Opera refuse to support H.264 Correction: It's not realistic for Mozilla and Opera to bear the costs of supporting H.264 (nor the bloggers and ot
by carussell 17y ago
> Mozilla and Opera refuse to support H.264
Correction: It's not realistic for Mozilla and Opera to bear the costs of supporting H.264 (nor the bloggers and other typical Web users for encoding and uploading H.264).
- DarkShikari 17y agoCorrection: It's not realistic for Mozilla and Opera to bear the costs of supporting H.264 Not quite true. Google pays Mozilla $50m/year; the maximum licensing fee cap is less than 10% of that. (nor the bloggers and other typical Web users for encoding and uploading H.264). Uploading and encoding H.264 is free. If you distribute more than 100,000 encoders, you have to pay 20 cents each.
- carussell 17y agoPerhaps you and I have different definitions of "realistic". a) 10% would appear to many people, I believe, to be a fuckton. b) Mozilla makes free software. They have obligations to downstream distributors.