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Video playback doesn't work even on twitter and vimeo This is because they use H.264, a patented but common video codec. Chrome includes a licensed decoder for
by gcp 10y ago
Video playback doesn't work even on twitter and vimeo
This is because they use H.264, a patented but common video codec. Chrome includes a licensed decoder for it, but Chromium cannot include that because it's open source. Firefox "solves" this by relying on installed system libraries (for video) and a licensing hack by Cisco (for WebRTC).
Your experience is a pretty good illustration that Chromium is not the open source version of Chrome.
- codedokode 10y agoChromium might not support H.264 but it supports VP8 and some open source codec Wikipedia uses. So the problem is with developers relying on proprietary codecs.
- gcp 10y agoH264 isn't proprietary, it's patented. Anyway, like my own post here, what you say is factually right but besides the point. Users expect H264 to work or the web will break. Like -webkit prefixes.