(In reply to Lars Olafsen from comment #250) > (In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > > My opinion is that we shouldn't land these patches at this time. > > > > This is essentially for policy reasons: > [..] > > We have for some years been holding the line against for royalty-free codecs > > in HTML against very strong commercial and market pressure, because the > > patent terms available for otherwise popular formats like mp3 and mp4 are > > incompatible with our principles of user freedom. > > Hasn't it occured to you that people would like to make their own choices > about codec support? Is it because you think that your own userbase is not > principled enough for you that you force your choice on all of us?
Mozilla's policy on codec support has nothing to do with what users choose; it affects what *sites* choose. Currently, sites provide WebM video as well, because several browsers only support WebM. If most or all browsers support H.264, sites will only provide H.264 video. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
