By deferring to system codecs, they manage to defer some licensing questions, too. It's a nice compromise, and it still encourages using royalty free codecs (s

By deferring to system codecs, they manage to defer some licensing questions, too. It's a nice compromise, and it still encourages using royalty free codecs (since those are the only ones with a chance of guaranteed deployment, even if Apple is still acting funny these days)