[whatwg] <video> element proposal

Geoffrey Sneddon foolistbar at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 4 06:32:30 PST 2007


On 4 Mar 2007, at 14:31, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2007, at 14:08, Maik Merten wrote:
>
>> - MPEG4: This is most common in forms of DivX and XviD.  
>> Predecessor of
>> H.264. As usual there's patent pool licensing involved. This means  
>> that
>> albeit XviD is open sourced it's not really free due to patent  
>> licensing
>> issues.
>
> That's wrong – H.264 is MPEG4 Part 11 – it's part of the MPEG4 spec.

Slight correction of myself, that should read: "H.264 is MPEG4 Part 10".


- Geoffrey Sneddon





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