[whatwg] MPEG-1 subset proposal for HTML5 video codec
Den.Molib
den.molib at gmail.com
Sat May 30 04:20:53 PDT 2009
I'm afraid that if using a subset of a bigger, patented, standard.
Some browsers will include the full codec. Web authors see their videos
reproduce correctly, and put them in the web thinking they're 'standard',
while the user agents including only the license-free version won't be
able to view them.
Thus de facto requiring the full support for the web, in what could be
considered a variant of 'embrace and extend' issues, even if not
intentional.
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