maybe it will cause the MPEG licensing association to drop their licensing fees. According to the article by Mark Pilgrim in Dive Into HTML5, it's something like $2500 - $10,000 to get a license to 'broadcast' if you're sending video to above 100K users.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:37 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: > Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness > http://bit.ly/hqfoNx > > > Prior to Google's decision, the migration from H.264-via-Flash to > H.264-via-<video> looked likely. Internet Explorer 9, Safari, and Chrome > were all to include native, built-in support for the codec, and even Firefox > users would be able to use H.264 video through Microsoft's plugin for that > browser. This would have represented great progress. > > Source: > http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/googles-dropping-h264-from-chrome-a-step-backward-for-openness.ars/ > See if people are clicking on this link:http://bit.ly/hqfoNx+ > Try the bit.ly sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: > http://bit.ly/pages/sidebar > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [email protected]
