- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:26:34 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Joe D Williams <joedwil@earthlink.net>, robert@ocallahan.org, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com> > wrote: >> Note also that besides patent risk, there are issues of coding >> efficiency, >> availability of hardware implementations, and hardware in already >> shipping >> devices. > > I still don't understand the hardware implementations argument. Are > you arguing that we should use h.264 as base codec despite its patent > situation? Or are you arguing that we should wait until there is some > un-encumbered codec with hardware implementations before we have a > base codec for the web? I think there isn't currently a single codec that satisfies everyone's requirements. That may change over time. Right now it looks like we have the makings of a format war, and those often end up as lose-lose situations. Regards, Maciej
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