[Bug 12563] <video> Make standard to play these codecs in <video>

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12563

--- Comment #11 from brunoais <brunoaiss@gmail.com> 2011-06-18 07:33:07 UTC ---
Ok, I'll do it and check back later.(In reply to comment #10)
> Just so we're clear here, browsers have considered implementing a common codec
> and were unable to come to agreement.  Firefox, Chrome, and Opera refuse to
> support H.264 at all because it's not usable royalty-free, and IE and Safari
> refuse to support VP8 or Theora by default because they might be covered by
> unknown patents.  So you'd either have to convince Mozilla and Google and Opera
> to drop their ideological commitment to a royalty-free web, or convince
> Microsoft and Apple to accept the patent risk of VP8 or Theora.  You'll be
> unsuccessful at both, but feel free to try.

My readings had told that H.264 was a free codec... If I try to look for it
more deeper I can see that that is not true.
Where can I find a list of free codecs that are available in a flv, mp4 and mkv
containers (not necessary the 3 at the same time, I just need pairs of codecs)?

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Received on Saturday, 18 June 2011 07:33:11 UTC