- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:14:50 +0100
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > This has > been discussed to death already, but here are our basic reasons: > > - MPEG-4 is an ISO open standard (although unfortunately > patent-encumbered). No-one is telling you not to support MPEG-4. > - H.264 offers considerably better quality at the same bitrate than > Theora/Vorbis. > - H.264 is better for video delivery to limited-capability and low-power > devices that support hardware video decoding. You may have heard that > YouTube will be serving their video content as H.264 to AppleTV and iPhone. Again, no-one is telling you not to support it. So that leaves only the following argument _against_ supporting Ogg as well as other things you might want to support: > - Ogg Theora/Vorbis offers a royalty-free license for the few known > patents, but we would assume additional risk of submarine patents if > we supported it. Leaving aside the merits of this final argument for a moment, it might save time when giving your list in future if you only mentioned this one :-) Gerv
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