- From: Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 16 Jan 2014 15:35:22 +0100
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Jeff Jaffe: > The precedent for having such (non-normative) dependencies is that we > began to standardize HTML5 video at a time when the dominant codec > (H.264) did not comply with our RF insistence for Web standards. The video tag does and did not depend on H.264. As far as I remember a major problem was and is that a tiny number of well-known vendors of proprietary operating systems and browsers objected to RF video codecs becoming a baseline standard. > Our approach has been to standardize that which we can make RF to > reduce the proprietary footprint and work over time to remove the > proprietary pieces. EME will not lead to the removal of CDMs. It will help to *enlarge* the proprietary pieces. That already seems to be happening with Chromebooks. Cheers, Andreas
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