Video format for mobile

[Richard Gaskin]

Tom Glod wrote:
 > There is cisco's openh264 codec which they open sourced.  So that is a
 > potential solution that would have to include the livecode team.
 >
 > https://github.com/cisco/openh264

Super-cool, Tom. Thanks for posting that.

It's an impressive work, both technically for its breadth of support and 
with its license, the permissive MIT-like BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License.

Curious about how they were able to pull that off without triggering the 
patent wrath of the MPEG-LA consortium, it seems Cisco wrote a large 
check and is absorbing the cost internally, not passing that cost on to 
users of the component:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperability-on-the-web-gets-a-boost-from-ciscos-h-264-codec/

This is how we can watch Netflix in Firefox, and many other things with 
proprietary and DRM content.

Thanks, Cisco!

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