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I see, was it easy to install the software you used to play H.264 on Linux? Did it come out of the box with the Linux distro you were using? Maybe I shouldn't h

I see, was it easy to install the software you used to play H.264 on Linux? Did it come out of the box with the Linux distro you were using? Maybe I shouldn't have used 'buggy.' I certainly wasn't trying to contribute to FUD, just compiling a likely senario with history of proprietary format support on free software, sprinkled with some over the top sarcasm. I just find it a little far fetched that the tweets and blog posts of people who care about open standards think it will do any good. I mean I support their effort, it just seems like the fight is already over.

teilo 16y ago
Yes and yes. Extremely easy all around. Also extremely easy on Mac and Windows. Double-click an installer, and then run the app. Check it out for yourself. Google VLC for Windows or Mac. Or the K-Lite Codec Pack for Windows which comes bundled with Media Player Classic - full open source high-quality high-speed H.264 playback. To say the fight is over may be true for Theora. That is a losing battle because, despite its promise, Theora just can't match the quality and efficiency of H.264. But again, you are mixing two things together if you think that the death of Theora is the death of open source video encoding and decoding. VP8, by the way, has already been open sourced by Google. This will very likely change everything. EDIT: Correction: No they haven't yet, but multiple sources report that they will at I/O. My bad.
- astrange 16y ago
  > VP8, by the way, has already been open sourced by Google. This will very likely change everything. It has not. It's only rumored that they will release it at I/O in May.