[theora-dev] [theora] HTML 5 drops open-source video codec

[salsaman]

Is it from next January, or the one after when they can start charging
royalties for people for putting h264 on the web ?


Good job we have theora, dirac, snow and all the other free codecs :-)

Salsaman
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:11 AM, <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote:
>> Will H264 become web standard in the future?
>
> Given that the patents likely won't run out before I'm dead.... probably not.
>
> Monty
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