Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > If all this makes you want to just punch patents in the nose and run away, > that's understandable... > :/ it does. It really does. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-02 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Matthew Flaschen >wrote: > > > So this does not change anything in my view. > > > Actually it changes something pretty important. This means that now all > major browsers will have H.264 support. MediaWiki may

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > So this does not change anything in my view. Actually it changes something pretty important. This means that now all major browsers will have H.264 support. MediaWiki may not be able to encode its own videos in H.264, but we can still ser

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 10/31/2013 05:26 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: We're churning through some internal discussion with legal on if and how how this affects our potential options... Note that the specific thing announced there doesn't include a licensed AAC *audio* codec which would be required to generate audio and v

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 10/31/2013 08:02 AM, Lukas Benedix wrote: Maybe you want to read this article: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html lbenedix Thanks for the pointer. I somewhat understand where he is coming from. However, it is still disappointing. "Open source projects get licensed (if partial an

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-11-01 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 10/31/2013 10:57 AM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: Also good reading on the topic, from one of the main authors of Opus (the best audio codec available, and it happens to be big F Free) and long time Wikipedian Greg Maxwell: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/571978/3226db9ce394bf07/ Thanks, that was a

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > > Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit : > >> http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t > >> > >> So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, ju

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit : >> http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t >> >> So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious)

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit : > http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t > > So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious) Can we get a summary? -- Antoine "hashar" Musso

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Lukas Benedix
Maybe you want to read this article: http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html lbenedix m Do 31.10.2013 10:26, schrieb Brion Vibber: > We're churning through some internal discussion with legal on if and how > how this affects our potential options... > > Note that the specific thing announced t

Re: [Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Brion Vibber
We're churning through some internal discussion with legal on if and how how this affects our potential options... Note that the specific thing announced there doesn't include a licensed AAC *audio* codec which would be required to generate audio and video+audio files playable on current browsers

[Wikitech-l] H.264

2013-10-31 Thread Magnus Manske
http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org http