On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- 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. True for intel but not for others but anyway as you said in the other mail it is worthless without audio support. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
