On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:44 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19 June 2012 00:30, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > <warning: patent politics question may lead to offtopic bikeshedding>
> > Additionally there's the question of adding H.264 transcode *output*,
> which
> > would let us serve video to mobile devices and to Safari and IE 9 without
> > any custom codec or Java installations. As far as I know that's not a
> huge
> > technical difficulty but still needs to be decided politically, either
> > before or after an initial rollout of TMH.
> > </warning>
>
>
> It's entirely unclear to me that this is intrinsically related.


They're intrinsically related because one depends on the other to be
possible. This is a one-way dependency: H.264 output depends on
TimedMediaHandler support. TimedMediaHandler in general doesn't depend on
H.264 output, and should not be confused with it.

-- brion
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