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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by asadotzler on Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:18AM (#9013357)
You have that functionality thanks to the <video> tag and H.264 and AAC in MP4. That seems to meet all of your requirements. Am I missing the problem? EME and DRM are not required to make that work in Firefox, IE, and Chrome.
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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by joshAg on Saturday February 07, 2015 @02:34AM (#9013379)
H.264 requires a per user license fee paid to MPEG LA until 2027 when the patent runs out: http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and-...

AAC also requires a per unit license for anyone who manufacturers or developers of a codec: http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/aac-fees.aspx

So no, neither of them meet the 3 requirements I laid out.

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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by nsgi on Sunday February 08, 2015 @11:46AM (#9017668)
What does that have to do with EME?
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Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters by joshAg on Monday February 09, 2015 @02:04PM (#9022959)
I didn't bring up EME. I just want a video tag with mandated support for at least one totally unencumbered audio and video codec. The suggested codecs aren't unencumbered, and currently there isn't any mandated codec wrt <video>.
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