If you haven't heard of H.264 ...

[dibl]

I found this very interesting, and informative ... I had no idea:

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/201...-with-the-web/

[Telengard]

Re: If you haven't heard of H.264 ...

I found this very interesting, and informative ... I had no idea:

That H.264 is patent-encumbered? Neither did I. Video codecs is a messy business already, and I am a bit confused about what is actually patented even after reading the Wikipedia article.

Mozilla and Firefox continue to stand with the web on this topic. We don’t think that fundamental web technologies should be encumbered with patents and our actions and messages reflect that.

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[dibl]

Re: If you haven't heard of H.264 ...

More here:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11011

As explained in the first article, the problem is not today's relatively liberal licensing terms for H.264, it is the potential "surprise" new terms once H.264 attains something like "mandatory" status for 'net streaming content transfers.