Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 21 November 2013 21:15 UTC

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Agreed.

To take a not-so-random example, given that Firefox will soon
support both H.264 and VP8, what additional implementations
will it be able to talk to if it does H.261?

-Ekr




On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 21 November 2013 12:48, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> <basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:
> > Has anyone actually objected to H.261 being the one MTI codec [...] ?
>
> More than one person has already.
>
> And I find the argument raised quite compelling.  It's hard to justify
> spending valuable time and resources on implementing something that
> crappy.
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