- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:10:50 +0100
Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> schrieb am Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:01:37 +1100: > Also, implementing WebM or Ogg Theora encoding is just as royalty-free > as decoding them, so Mozilla, Opera and Google wouldn't need to worry > there. Slightly offtopic: Anyone considering the low-bandwith audio use case? Surely, speex might be useful here ? even a throttled UMTS connection suffices for VoIP. > So, the browsers would implement support for those codecs for which > they already implement decoding support - maybe with the exception of > Chrome which decode MPEG-4, but may not want to encode it, since it > might mean extra royalties. And probably less WebM content, too boot. Decoding, but not encoding MPEG formats could certainly fit into a royalty-free formats agenda, depending on the level of aggressiveness Google is wishing to take. > It would be nice if we could all, say, encode WebM, but I don't see > that happening. I see what you did there. Greetings, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20101126/60f3a3b2/attachment.pgp>
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