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Interoperating with legacy systems? What legacy systems? The majority of Firefox users currently don't use WebRTC with H264 streaming at all. This is a very ne
by nly 13y ago
Interoperating with legacy systems? What legacy systems? The majority of Firefox users currently don't use WebRTC with H264 streaming at all. This is a very new thing. Maintaining legacy only seems to benefit Cisco.
> if they get an AAC decoder from somewhere it'll provide H.264 decode to Firefox users on XP.
aacdec.c and friends in ffmpeg git seem to be LGPL also...
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoAlthough it's called WebRTC, and the billion or so installs of the two existing Web browsers that actually implement it both use only VP8, there's a lot of moneyed interests (like Cisco) that want to be able to inter-operate with legacy systems outside the browser. Video transcoding would really put a crimp in their plans. And when I said "get an AAC decoder" I mean in the same sense that they get the H.264 encoder/decoder from Cisco, or the AAC and H.264 encoder/decoder from later versions of Windows or Android, with the key feature being not paying any patent fees for it.