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Mozilla reconsiders H.264

Mozilla reconsiders H.264

Posted Mar 22, 2012 11:48 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: Mozilla reconsiders H.264 by AndreE
Parent article: Mozilla reconsiders H.264

H.264 is technically the best codec overall, and has the best existing encoder overall (x264) and has the most hardware support.

That's fundamentally why people use it.

The ideal outcome is somehow neutralizing the patents, not replacing it with something else, since that's going to be worse.


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