Video Codec War H 264 Fork For Firefox
Video Codec War H 264 Fork For Firefox Id love for fifteen or twenty minutes to go by without my Google Reader barfing out yet another piece of software patent or "HTML5 video codec war" news, but thats how it is. At this point, I wouldnt be surprised if the video tag didnt become standardized until HTML6 or 7. One serious downside to the lack of consensus is the fact that your browser may very well not have built-in support for some video files embedded with the tag. Firefox, for example, is running with Ogg Theora and wont be bolting on H.264 support. Apart from patent issues, theres a $5 million price tag to be paid to MPEG-LA if Mozilla did want to support the codec, and they still wouldnt be able to include that code in their open source. But developers love to spin remixes of the Fox, and it only makes sense that someone would take matters into his or her own hands. Enter Maya Posch, who has launched the Wild Fox project on SourceForge. The plan: add H.264 support to F...