> What I don't understand is that of the three main desktop > platforms > Firefox gets installed on - Windows and Mac - both have > H.264 decoders > *on the machine already* in the form of Windows Media and > QuickTime > APIs. Microsoft and Apple have presumably solved whatever > licensing > problems exist for H.264 decoding.
Only Windows 7 has native H.264 (which isn't actually compliant in a few places last time I checked). XP/Vista don't however. Older macs without H.264 hardware acceleration also have a very basic version of the spec through Quicktime because Apple don't seem to fix any bugs with it. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
