[whatwg] Video Tag Proposal

[David Gerard]

2010/3/28 Remco <remco47 at gmail.com>:

> This is what I don't understand either. It's not like H.264 won't be
> successful if another baseline format is specified in the
> recommendation. So, all this PR about submarine patents to scare
> people away from unencumbered formats is not necessary. Recommending
> an unencumbered format like MPEG 1 or H.263 or Dirac or Theora (the
> last one having the best quality of the bunch) will help tremendously
> with the standardization of the Internet, and if Apple wants to use a
> different format for their higher-quality videos, that's fine too.


One editor works for Apple, the other works for Google.


- d.