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Even if Mozilla sticks to their guns it doesn't prevent someone from writing a plugin that uses the H264 codecs shipping in Windows & Mac, or x264 on Linux. Sur
by fleitz 17y ago
Even if Mozilla sticks to their guns it doesn't prevent someone from writing a plugin that uses the H264 codecs shipping in Windows & Mac, or x264 on Linux. Sure, it won't be "officially" supported, just like flash doesn't ship with Firefox, but everyone has it.
H264 is baked into silicon, there it's already been decided. Holding out for Theora is like holding out for ogg. Yeah, Wikipedia might use it, but no one else will.
- duskwuff 17y agoActually, the video implementation in Firefox makes it extremely difficult to add support for other codecs. Word has it this is specifically so you can't easily add H264 support. So yeah.
- krakensden 17y ago"Word has it"? This is an open source project, you can find the reasoning on the bug tracker and the mailing list. I would like to call 'bullshit'.