AVC offers much better compatibility across encapsulation formats (notably MPEG-TS) and playback devices than WebM currently does. The Ubuntu community is not going to take care of the surge of support request and bad publicity a new version of VLC gets if it breaks that compatibility.
VP8/WebM is supported, but I do not believe it would an appropriate default choice at this point in time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593477 Title: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
