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Or in summary: if you support a free Web, you support WebM and FSF's call for killing H.264. If you don't care, then H.264 seems just fine.
by cmister 16y ago
Or in summary: if you support a free Web, you support WebM and FSF's call for killing H.264. If you don't care, then H.264 seems just fine.
- tzs 16y agoSo, to watch a video using H.264, you use a patent encumbered codec, running on a patent encumbered CPU, accelerated by a patent encumbered GPU. The video came over patent encumbered network hardware, or from patent encumbered local storage, over patent encumbered interfaces and patent encumbered connectors. If we switch to WebM, we have one less "patent encumbered" in there (maybe). I'm not impressed with the "free Web" argument.