On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar wrote:
Quoting C <smaug42@opensuse.org>:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
On Wednesday 27 November 2013 10:48:31 C wrote:
With no codec support... what's the point of building Chromium? This is like building VLC with no codec support. It's nice and all but not really practical for the actual end user.
It is not that there is no longer any codec support. The codecs here are regarding MP4 and H.264. Those will no longer be supported. Other codecs should still be supported.
Whatever happened with the whole thing of Cisco and H.264?
http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webr...
I can't pretend to understand the whole legal silliness behind it all, but... shouldn't "we" be able to use H.264?
If you ensure the patent fee is paid, you can... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing
The patent fee is paid as was stated by Cisco: "We plan to open-source our H.264 codec, and to provide it as a binary module that can be downloaded for free from the Internet. Cisco will not pass on our MPEG LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use in WebRTC." How that can be implemented... or even if it can be... no idea, but according to the statement from Cisco, the fees are paid on H.264 and it's available for anyone to use. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org