> from your tone and the "side" you picked I basically assume you're running iOS and OS X exclusively Please don't mistake technical pragmatism for ideology.

> from your tone and the "side" you picked I basically assume you're running iOS and OS X exclusively Please don't mistake technical pragmatism for ideology. I'm a big supporter of software freedom, most of my work involves codecs like these, and it's almost always on Linux, which is my daily machine. Don't get me started on how fucked up iOS is (both technically and ideologically!). There's no argument from me that software patents are a plague, and that does make codec distribution tricky. But Google isn't doing this so users can avoid the step of apt-get'ing ffmpeg.