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0 pointsuserbinator2y ago0 comments

The decision to not supply H.264 is ideological for sure, and I can understand that from the patent perspective, but then they have MP3 (patent-expired in 2017) but not MPEG-2/H.262 (patent-expired in 2018).

Also note that VP8/VP9 is still patented, but just licensed freely. IMHO that's less free than patent-expired (public domain).

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manquer2y ago

My understanding was H264 is kind is licensed freely too after Cisco made their agreement usable for everyone ?

Firefox can support mp4 over h264 despite their clear FOSS aligned goals , I am surprised that Wikipedia whose goals more align to open information rather than open source directly has challenges .

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