On 20 March 2012 09:59, Tei <[email protected]> wrote: > What perhaps can be done, withouth hurting the cause of freedom much, > is to have the encoder. So if you uploade a propietery h.264 video, > its encoded into a free format. You still helps the H.264 to spread, > so is not that cool. If the owners of h.264 start asking money to > encoders, you can drop support for the format. Nobody is damaged > (people sould change habits of what format video to upload).
We should definitely be able to ingest H.264. (This has been on the wishlist forever and is a much harder problem than it sounds.) > The problem can be output. What free format a iPhone support?, if the > reply is none, then you have to choise no service at all, or output > video in h.264. Not serving people is bad, and serving h.264 is bad > because you help h.264 gains more ground, hurting the cause of open > formats. Theres no good option. IF you can serve a video that a > iPhone can watch, even if using some crappy javascript or java format, > you avoid pushing h.264 (so you help the cause of free formats). If > this solution is slow, you create a incentive for iPhone to support a > open format (what is good again), and everyone can watch all videos > (what is good again). Android supports Theora. The significant holdout is Apple. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
