Re: [rtcweb] Congratuiations on the Cisco announcement - but we still prefer VP8

Leon Geyser <lgeyser@gmail.com> Sat, 02 November 2013 11:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Congratuiations on the Cisco announcement - but we still prefer VP8
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Like Firefox and Opera...and the browser I might create in the future? :)
Firefox only has decoding support on some platforms, because it uses the
operating system's H.264 decoder if it has one so far as I know.

On 2 November 2013 13:31, Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure I understand this completely. Isn't support for "the Rube
> Goldberg Machine" needed only on platforms that do not natively support
> H.264?
>
> On Nov 1, 2013, at 1:14 PM, "Justin Uberti" <juberti@google.com> wrote:
>
> I also want to reiterate that having a MTI codec means Mandatory To
> Implement.
>
> That means, that should we decide to go down the H.264 path, Firefox and
> others will be forced to support this Rube Goldberg machine for obtaining
> H.264 for an indeterminate amount of time, long after WebRTC has moved on
> to prefer other codecs.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 10/31/13 13:47, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>>
>>  We congratulate Cisco on their intention to make an open source H.264
>> codec available and usable by the community. We look forward to seeing the
>> result of this effort.
>>
>>  Google still believes that VP8 - a freely available, fully open,
>> high-quality video codec that you can download, compile for your platform,
>> include in your binary, distribute and put into production today - is the
>> best choice of a Mandatory to Implement video codec for the WebRTC effort.
>>
>>
>> I agree with Harald that VP8 is a better codec than H.264 baseline in a
>> number of important ways.
>>
>> But I also want to reiterate that having an MTI codec has never been
>> about choosing the best codec or even a good codec. It's about choosing an
>> emergency backup codec-of-last-resort. It's about having one single
>> mandated codec that everyone has in their back pocket in case nothing else
>> works.
>>
>> The core of RTCWEB is about session *negotiation*. Endpoints will
>> negotiate the best codec they have in common. Once the next generation of
>> codecs come out, this "best codec in common" will only be the MTI if they
>> were about to fail anyway.
>>
>> So it doesn't have to be good.
>>
>> It just has to be better than failure.
>>
>> /a
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