Le vendredi 23 mars 2007 à 12:41 +0100, Maik Merten a écrit : > | User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as > | well as the Ogg container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [OGG]" > > This basically means the free Ogg formats, which are included in Debian > already, form a basic set of codecs that are recommended to be supported > by all browsers. > > Recently Apple joined the discussion and questioned if the Ogg formats > should get such a recommendation ( > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/010392.html > ). The following discussion implies Apple wants to see MPEG4 being used > for embedded video in browsers. These codecs are not free (they demand a > fee for it) and restrict distribution of software containing them.
Maybe it would be a good idea to push h.264 now the related patents have been invalidated. It provides a much better compression level than Ogg Theora. > This would mean Debian may have to strip support for <video> from all > shipped browsers. That would mean many Debian users can't legally access > parts of the web. Fortunately not. We have free MPEG-4 decoders, thanks. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
