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The problem is that the H.264 license is not free. Opera would have to pay the license according to its users' number.
That's why Opera (and Firefox) are defending the Ogg Theora codec, which is free, for the video use in HTML5.
see : http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/03/16/microsoft-letter
PS : H.264 became free until 2016, but could become paying again after this date. This is just a trap from Microsoft and Apple (and Google ?) to Opera and Firefox in order to make them accept to implement H.264 during 5 years and to make them inevitably disappear then.
That's why Opera (and Firefox) are defending the Ogg Theora codec, which is free, for the video use in HTML5.
see : http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/03/16/microsoft-letter
PS : H.264 became free until 2016, but could become paying again after this date. This is just a trap from Microsoft and Apple (and Google ?) to Opera and Firefox in order to make them accept to implement H.264 during 5 years and to make them inevitably disappear then.
google will push chrome as hard as possible - so i am sure they will try to keep chrome with expensive h264 "In advance" - and i doubt opera can afford millions of $ for the codec :/
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If you want H264 support in Opera, just help to hack on GStreamer: https://forja.rediris.es/forum/forum.php?thread_id=5074&forum_id=1624
The devs already confirmed that, with a good working GStreamer plugins this would be no problem...
The devs already confirmed that, with a good working GStreamer plugins this would be no problem...
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OGG sucks at low bitrates, no doubt about that. H.264 is better, but the fact that it is stuck in patent\license hell ruins it.
I'm hoping for VP8, which will probably be accepted by Opera, Mozilla and of course Google. Microsoft might join in as well, as they seem to be serious about IE9. Apple will most likely be the tricky bastards here.
I'm hoping for VP8, which will probably be accepted by Opera, Mozilla and of course Google. Microsoft might join in as well, as they seem to be serious about IE9. Apple will most likely be the tricky bastards here.
Originally posted by sevenred:
Apple will most likely be the tricky bastards here.
I don't think that will be a problem. Apple uses QuickTime for <video>. So one had only to build a VP8 QuickTime codec.
Using Windows 7 64Bit SP1 and of course Opera
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!