On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 17:23 -0400, Fedora Video 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. > > Mozilla and Fedora will not be alone in making this move. Today > Wikipedia announced they would be abandoning Theora and switching to > H.264 (they never adopted WebM). > > It is time for Fedora to stop promoting low quality, proprietary, and > unlicensed video like WebM and Theora and adopt the industry standard > x264. Our political preferences are worthless if Fedora is > irrelevant. It is time to regain relevance! > Nice trolling, really, but too blatant. Try again, you may have more luck next time. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
