On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > Just thought I'd check in on what it'll take to get it going. No immediate > rush, but.... I'd really love to have videos working on smartphones and > tablets, and not everybody runs Firefox. :)
As a recap, this is about expanding video support to include h.264, which is patent-encumbered (licensing fees are charged for some uses of the format). Cf. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_video_codec_policy Since there are multiple potential paths for changing the policy (keeping things ideologically pure, allowing conversion on ingestion, allowing h.264 but only for mobile, allowing h.264 for all devices, etc.), and since these issues are pretty contentious, it seems like a good candidate for an RFC which'll help determine if there's an obvious consensus path forward. Any takers for advancing the community conversation? Erik -- 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
