Re: Google and MPEG LA Announce Agreement Covering VP8 Video Format

Henri Sivonen:
>> Does this really imply that using the same VP8 libraries in two
>> different browsers would make them dependent implementations regarding
>> that feature?
> 
> Yes, but if I have understood correctly, Chrome uses ffvp8 for
> decoding and Firefox uses libvpx for decoding. 

I searched for ffvp8 and libvpx.

Mozilla Firefox uses libvpx and does not want to use ffvp8 due to the
LGPL license:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581773

Chromium uses libvpx - as one would expect.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:03:45 UTC