[Bug 593477] Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format

verb3k 593477 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun May 1 03:31:35 UTC 2011


@Rémi Denis-Courmont: VP8 is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation as
its patent license is compliant with software freedom. It is because
Google owned the patents that they were able to license them with that
open license. Patents aren't code. You can't "release" them or nullify
them once they are issued. H.264 is a for-profit format whose ulterior
existence reason is commercial, and most of its pool members have proven
evil throughout their existence. "Top-notch open-source implementations"
exist for VP8 too. libavcodec's ffvp8 decoder is faster than their
ffh264 decoder. VP8 encoding in x264 is being developed as project xvp8
and will be internally integrated into x264. Thanks for nothing Remi.

** Changed in: vlc
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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  Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format




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