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Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change by toddheasley on Friday January 14, 2011 @08:27PM (#2106156)
>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM.

Here's a question: If it's no biggie to re-encode everything as WebM, can't we wait to see if this threat of unreasonable H.264 licensing terms becomes reality and switch to WebM then?

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Re:Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change by ZeroGravitas on Saturday January 15, 2011 @04:54AM (#2106777)
They are already unreasonable, hence the fact that they can't be mandated in a W3C standard, many governments have laws saying their communications shouldn't use such a codec, Mozilla can't ship it etc.
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