On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Ian Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > For mobile, I can't imagine this fixing itself all that quickly. As your > tests show, good WebM playback isn't solvable in software on most of the > current generation of handsets. People will need to buy new devices to > make it really work.
Support for encumbered formats is a Board-level policy issue. Parallel distribution in h.264 on mobile would be in contravention of the guidance I got from the Board regarding free file formats the last time I floated parallel distribution in proprietary codecs with them (there's no formal resolution on it, IIRC). It's a highly specialized use case with a unique justification, but we'd have to at least seek the Board's acquiescence if we want to consider it for smartphone video usage. If someone wants to write up a memo with pros/cons of targeting that smartphone h264 support, that would be helpful in case we want to move this to Board-level reviews. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
