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Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018) by MaxBarraclough on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:25AM (#25713582)
> Chromium leverages both already

Why do they need to pay for their own licence then?

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Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018) by ksec on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:54AM (#25714238)
They dont, and neither do Mozilla if they decide to use the OS media playing framework.

But most Browsers tends to implement their own for all sort of reasons.

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