Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 21 November 2013 21:47 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:46:23 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:33 PM, <Markus.Isomaki@nokia.com> wrote:

>  Would the implement any two of {VP8, H.264 CBP, H.261} option solve your
> problem?
>

Well, for my specific problem, essentially anything that mandates
either VP8 or H.264 or both or the user's choice would. H.261
doesn't bring anything to the party. I'm trying to figure out who it
does benefit and coming up a bit short.

-Ekr

 +1 for Ron's reasoning.
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>  Markus
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 21, 2013, at 23:15, "ext Eric Rescorla" <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
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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
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> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> 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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