- From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@nickshanks.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:02:39 +0100
I don't quite get some of the arguments in the thread. Browsers don't (and shouldn't) include their own av decoders anyway. Codec support is an operating system issue, and any browser installed on my computer supports exactly the same set of codecs, which are the ones made available via the OS (QuickTime APIs in my case, Windows Media APIs on Bill's platform, and from the sounds of it, libavcodec on the Penguin) So Mozilla and Opera wouldn't need to license MPEG to get MPEG support, they would either get it if the user had an MPEG codec installed, or they wouldn't. And that would be no different from IE or the user's other browsers, so they wouldn't be at a disadvantage. If a browser implemented it's own codecs, they would almost certainly be slower and more buggy than the ones that exist on the system already. WRT Apple and Ogg Theora: Iagree that given the high risk-to-reward cost of Theora to Apple, it's their right not to ship it, but it would be most consumer unfriendly not to link to xiph.org when a theora video is first encountered. And this link should probably be a redirect via the apple.com domain so that they can intercept and change the path if the destination changes. Hard-coding URLs for codecs into either the HTML or the shipping software is a bad idea. - Nicholas. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2427 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070626/8a3b1fe3/attachment.bin>
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