Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
This has
been discussed to death already, but here are our basic reasons:
- MPEG-4 is an ISO open standard (although unfortunately
patent-encumbered).
No-one is telling you not to support MPEG-4.
- H.264 offers considerably better quality at the same bitrate than
Theora/Vorbis.
- H.264 is better for video delivery to limited-capability and low-power
devices that support hardware video decoding. You may have heard that
YouTube will be serving their video content as H.264 to AppleTV and iPhone.
Again, no-one is telling you not to support it.
So that leaves only the following argument _against_ supporting Ogg as
well as other things you might want to support:
> - Ogg Theora/Vorbis offers a royalty-free license for the few known
> patents, but we would assume additional risk of submarine patents if
> we supported it.
Leaving aside the merits of this final argument for a moment, it might
save time when giving your list in future if you only mentioned this one :-)
Gerv
