Apple's position probably has much to do with their video-playing hardware devices having hardware h.264 decoding which can't handle Theora.
On the other hand, Microsoft's position is worse, in that they're refusing to implement the standard at all. -Matthew On 7/6/09, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> Greg Maxwell and I have been posting to the mailing list to push Ogg >> Theora. I mean, H.264 is technically marvellous and it'd be a lovely >> choice, but it's known patent encumbrances - and that MPEG-LA enforce >> them - make it *radioactive* for our purposes. >> >> It's IMO futile pushing much harder on the list - Hixie's the editor, >> it's his decision, he's an honorable fellow and he's decided he really >> can't honestly put Ogg Theora in the spec at present. So it goes back >> to pushing Ogg Theora as the de facto format for the web. >> >> >> - d. > > I also followed that. It's sad to look at Apple's position. > Do you know what's the state about IE? (not from MS, but I suppose > someone will be doing/have made some IE plugin) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
