[whatwg] MPEG-1 subset proposal for HTML5 video codec

[jjcogliati-whatwg at yahoo.com]

That is a potential problem, but for MPEG-1 it is less of a problem than with newer codecs.  Since the near complete MPEG-1 committee draft was publicly available in December 1991, remaining patents for decoding of the full MPEG-1 spec should be expiring in the 2012 timeframe or before. 

The next question is why not just wait until the complete MPEG-1 can be decoded? If there is still no decision on a suitable codec for HTML5 when MPEG-1 becomes royalty free and MPEG-1 decoding starts showing up in things like gstreamer's good set of plugins then the full MPEG-1 might be worth considering then.  

--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Den.Molib <den.molib at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Den.Molib <den.molib at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] MPEG-1 subset proposal for HTML5 video codec
> To: jjcogliati-whatwg at yahoo.com, whatwg at lists.whatwg.org
> Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 5:20 AM
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
>