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I hope mozilla can now afford H.264 licenses. They are the last holdout to make web video easy.

• Zirro 15y ago
  Isn't this an issue of keeping the web open, rather than the cost of licenses?
• azakai 15y ago
  Not true. Chrome: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in... Opera: See an opinion piece at http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/01/13/openness
  • Erunno 15y ago
    Chrome still supports H.264 and and there are no indications that Google is planning to change that in the near future.
    • azakai 15y ago
      Isn't the indication that Google said it will remove H.264? Have you seen Google go back on that statement?
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• fpgeek 15y ago
  Mozilla would need to be able to convey their H.264 licenses under open-source terms. That would effectively destroy most existing and future revenue streams associated with H.264 (as licensees could elect to use Mozilla's open-source license for free instead). In other words, Mozilla would need to be able to buy the entire H.264 patent pool. Even at $300M/year, they're nowhere near that.