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Mozilla already supports (in code, not principle) H.264 by leveraging non-Mozilla code. It's not usually a problem on Windows on Mac since the user has already
by pritambaral 13y ago
Mozilla already supports (in code, not principle) H.264 by leveraging non-Mozilla code. It's not usually a problem on Windows on Mac since the user has already paid for a license when they bought the OS, but on Linux (gstreamer) it can cause patent violations within US.
I hope (an believe) Mozilla will keep that functionality to use one of multiple backends (Windows's fedia framework, gstreamer etc.) when it adds this Cisco binary.
- BrendanEich 13y agoWe will need WMF at least until OpenH264 does High Profile, and I believe we are not going to be able to use only the OpenH264 binary blobs. Therefore we'll support other back ends (but not necessarily all possible back ends). /be