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> The situation that keeps Firefox and Linux from jumping all over H.265 is not some natural property of the universe, it's just a social construct that we upho
by oarsinsync 2y ago
> The situation that keeps Firefox and Linux from jumping all over H.265 is not some natural property of the universe, it's just a social construct that we uphold by willing choice.
Can you elaborate and/or link me to anything related to this?
- randomdata 2y agoNo. I'm good. Thanks for asking, though.
- vetinari 2y agoPatents. To distribute the codec itself or content, you might have to pay patent fees. For codecs, they are not flat fee[1], but per piece shipped. Which obviously, presents a problem for linux distributions. Even if they had money, they cannot count how many instances there are. [1] Well, there is a ceiling, if you ship a insanely huge number of them. Linux isn't it. Cisco is, which is why we have openh264 binaries by them.
- echoangle 2y agoI think this has some info: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136 Basically, H.265 is based on some patents and you would have to license them to be allowed to implement the Codec. Mozilla categorically doesn’t want to do that until they can implement it without any patents.