- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:37:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Mike Shaver wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Peter Kasting<pkasting at google.com> wrote: > > It makes sense if you think about it -- whether YouTube sends videos encoded > > as H.264 is irrelevant to what the _baseline_ codec for <video> needs to be, > > it is only relevant as additional info for vendors deciding whether to > > support H.264. > > Yes, I concur -- I couldn't think of any reason for that to be > relevant to the discussion of baseline codecs at first, so I tried to > make it fit (and asked questions about the details of it). > > I will patiently await the details. :-) It wasn't directly relevant, I was just listing what I knew about the landscape. The only truly relevant point is that Apple isn't implementing Theora, at this point (and Microsoft don't have any <video> support at all). Since Mozilla, Opera, and Google all do Theora, if Apple (or Microsoft) implemented Theora, then there'd be enough of a critical mass to make it the baseline codec. As it stands, it's more of an even split than I feel confortable with in terms of making the spec take a stand. Anyway, I don't want to respark this thread, since no new information is forthcoming at this point. I hear Apple are studying this in more detail again; maybe they will change their mind. We'll see. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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