from what I can tell Vorbis works with WebM but then you get into the
browser problem. The proprietary browsers appear to not support the OSS
media without extra stuff added by the user..

It's also hard to get a decent encoding software...  you might have to roll
your own.

it's the 'all platforms' part that is a problem.

as usual.... wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_codecs

sqb

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Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Seems most folks use h.264 for encoding video, but being patent-encumbered
> it requires negotiating a license with MPEGLA for commercial use.
>
> I have a batch of files I need to re-encode - what non-patent-encumbered
> codec could I use that will be supported on all platforms?
>
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