Cullen Jennings schrieb:
So Daala has made it to slashdot, how come it has not made it to my favorite browser?
Well, I think Monty wrote that they only encoded and decoded the first Daala video experimentally on May 31 or something like that. This means that there probably isn't a library yet that is nearly stable enough for a piece of production software like a web runtime (nee browser).
If I compare this with "the competition" - IIRC, H.265 has even been declared done, and there's basically no products out there using it, right?
That said, as soon as a decoder is somewhat stable, I'd surely like Ralph's proposal to get this into Nightly and Aurora for testing. Once it's mature enough, we can enable for beta and release as well.
While we are on the topic, why not add in all the codecs that can easily be added and don't have IPR problems.
That would be a disservice for the web, which profits from a small, but decent amount of formats that are widely supported, and would fracture badly with a ton of formats that are only supported haphazardly and not widely enough. Apart from that, every line of code adds a maintenance, stability and security risk to our product, and codec are usually millions of lines of code, therefore large risks in those terms. For example, if a single malformed file in some obscure codec we support causes a memory overflow that can be used to take over computers (that's not hypothetical, such flaws have been found even in "simple" image decoders), then millions of users' computers are at risk of being taken over just by accessing a website e.g. a forum where someone has placed a malicious file.
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