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Actually Mozilla did the right thing and theora and webm are as widely available in browsers (by count). The only two companies that blocked free codecs are the
by buster 13y ago
Actually Mozilla did the right thing and theora and webm are as widely available in browsers (by count).
The only two companies that blocked free codecs are the companies part of the MPEG-LA! Which means the get money from h264 content.
It still sucks very much that the W3C did not force a codec in the standard, the current situation is awful!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
- gsnedders 13y agoHow does the W3C force a codec in the standard? Apple and Microsoft had outright stated that if the standard said one MUST support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis they would simply chose to violate the standard.
- buster 13y agoI dont unerstand. So the right way to form a standard is to follow the biggest corporation and implement their formats rather then create fair chances for everyone, is that it?
- gsnedders 13y agoNobody follows standards the W3C publish just because the W3C publish them. Indeed, if they have a good reason (or sometimes not so good reason) not to, they won't. Publishing a standard that says "the user agent MUST support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis" doesn't change anything until you motivate the company that implementing that standard is more important than anything else. And as long as IE, Safari, and Chrome all supported H.264 (etc.) anyway, most web developers would just use H.264 thus giving MS, Apple, and Google no (external) motivation in terms of site-compatibility to support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis, and if the market (i.e., browser users) don't care about it — they won't add support.