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The main reason Mozilla didn't add H264 was because of royalties, which they couldn't pay. I don't know how much ideology was also behind the decision. Their so
by keeperofdakeys 13y ago
The main reason Mozilla didn't add H264 was because of royalties, which they couldn't pay. I don't know how much ideology was also behind the decision. Their solution was to use the OS to decode H.264, bypassing the need to implement the codec, and pay royalties. So I'm not sure how much of it was "caving", and how much was finally implementing the solution.