On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Fedora Video <fedoravideo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As everyone probably knows, Mozilla has chosen to adopt H.264. They will be > doing this by finally utilizing OS codecs instead of embedding their own. > They have been quite clear that Linux would be supported too, so obviously > this means H.264 in Fedora. With Firefox's adoption there will be no web > browser supported on Fedora which doesn't support H.264 (Firefox, Chrome, > and Konqueror), and not a moment too soon since flash support on Linux is > going away. > > Why is Mozilla doing this? It is clear enough: Non-support of H.264 is > making them irrelevant. They've gone from the #1 browser to the #4 directly > as a result of not adopting H.264. H.264 is the only video that is good > enough for the web and the alternatives are just as patented which is why > Google did not make good on their commitments to deploy them. Even Youtube > only offers WebM on a small number of unpopular videos: The bandwidth > demands of a full WebM deployment would put them out of business and would > break their site on apple devices which don't work if WebM is offered. > > Likewise, we see Fedora's market share dwindle as it is supplanted by Ubuntu > and Debian both, not coincidentally, ship H.264 while Fedora has not. There > can be no question of freedom here since no one doubts that Debian places > freedom as the highest priority. It is fedora's continued lack of H.264 > which is actually the violation of freedom. Who wants a desktop with zero > video support? Ffmpeg, VLC, Mplayer, gstreamer, Blender and almost all > free software video programs are based on H.264 and Mpeg. Go look on pirate > bay: No one distributes in anything but mpeg formats. > > H.264 is now free for the web and has been free for a long time. It is only > foolish religion which has kept H.264 out of Fedora. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
