----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs. Chrome > > will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome. > > > > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low. > > One of those is youtube (vp8/9) besides .. we could play h264 on a > large amount of hardware if our browsers would be using the GPU for > decoding (through vdpau or vaapi) with drivers installed. > So its not (only) a patent issue. It's only a patent issue, because, bugs notwithstanding, we can't even ship the intel libva driver in Fedora. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
