Re: [Gnash-dev] YouTube, Vimeo launch Flash-free HTML5 version (but only H.264)

[John Wimer]

Quoting John Gilmore <address@hidden>:
> FYI
>
> http://www.macworld.com/article/145828/2010/01/youtube_html5.html
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10439048-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
> But the codec wars are biting:  Firefox isn't supported, because these
> sites don't want to transcode to Ogg, and the Morg won't let any other
> format play, even if the codecs are available locally.
>
>         John

Mozilla is working on a gstreamer backend for <video>.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540

Whichever gstreamer codecs the user has installed will then be  
available. This is the same approach that Linux distros usually use  
when shipping Gnash.

H.264 and Theora aren't in a codec war because they aren't  
competitive. There is no format war, we have always been at peace with  
Oceania.

John Wimer