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More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 17, 2011 12:15 UTC (Mon) by thomasvs (guest, #36955)
In reply to: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog) by roc
Parent article: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Not sure why you are lumping Fluendo codecs in with ffmpeg's h264 codecs.

The Fluendo codecs are licensed and legal. If a distro cannot ship them it's probably because they can't or won't pay the licensing fees. But various distros ship with Fluendo codecs; one prominent example is Dell + Ubuntu + Fluendo codecs.


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More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 17, 2011 23:14 UTC (Mon) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

But various distros ship with Fluendo codecs; one prominent example is Dell + Ubuntu + Fluendo codecs.
Dell's messaging, web site, and offerings are very sorely lacking for Linux on Dell. This is especially true in the US.

I wish this weren't so.

More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 18, 2011 8:14 UTC (Tue) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

There is nothing illegal about Fluendo codecs, nor has there ever been. Stop the FUD already!

More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 19, 2011 6:55 UTC (Wed) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link]

> There is nothing illegal about Fluendo codecs, nor has there ever been. Stop the FUD already!

Haha, how can I blame anybody for being confused, when I cannot even write a single coherent sentence ;-)

I meant that there is nothing illegal about the *FFMPEG* codecs, nor has there ever been.

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