FirefoxOS/Boot2Gecko phones presumably also support Ogg Theora and WebM formats, but they're not really a market share yet and may never be in the developed world.
Without trying to downplay the importance of ideological purity, keep in mind that Mozilla, who have largely the same ideology on the matter have conceded defeat on the practical side of it after investing significant effort. Eg http://appleinsider. com/articles/12/03/14/mozilla_considers_h264_video_support_after_googles_vp8_fails_to_gain_traction With Google unwilling to commit the battle was winnable. There is not an ideologically pure answer that is compatible with the goal of taking video content and disseminating it effectively and globally. The conversation needs to be framed as what shade of grey is an acceptable compromise. Luke Welling On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 12/12/12 00:15, Erik Moeller a écrit : > > Since there are multiple potential paths for changing the policy > > (keeping things ideologically pure, allowing conversion on ingestion, > > allowing h.264 but only for mobile, allowing h.264 for all devices, > > etc.), and since these issues are pretty contentious, it seems like a > > good candidate for an RFC which'll help determine if there's an > > obvious consensus path forward. > > Could we host h.264 videos and related transcoders in a country that > does not recognize software patents? > > > Hints: > - I am not a lawyer > - WMF has server in Netherlands, EU. > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
