Re: [rtcweb] x264 vs OpenH264 (Was: On the topic of MTI video codecs)

[Lorenzo Miniero <[e-mail]>]

Il giorno Fri, 1 Nov 2013 17:19:25 +0100
Emil Ivov <[e-mail]> ha scritto:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 1, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Emil Ivov <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, DRAGE, Keith (Keith)
> >> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That ownership means they are also take responsibility for any of
> >>> the liabilities arising from defective code they so distribute. I
> >>> see no reason why Cisco would want to do that under anything but
> >>> a controlled evironment, which would have its own set of
> >>> non-trivial costs.
> >>
> >> They could have the same by distributing x264 binaries that they
> >> have compiled by themselves.
> >>
> >> One of the things in the Cisco grand, that sound a bit incoherent
> >> to me is their declared will on building a healthy open source
> >> community around their implementation. Specifically, what baffles
> >> me is that there is already a very well oiled implementation that
> >> does a lot more than just baseline. That implementation already
> >> has a vibrant community, significant popularity and, again, it
> >> sounds like it would be considerably superior to what Cisco are
> >> planning on rolling out in OpenH264.
> >>
> >> In addition to wondering at the pure waste of resources (with a
> >> casual reference to NIH), potential contributors could
> >> legitimately ask "why would we contribute to your project when you
> >> made the exact opposite choice when faced with the decision?".
> >>
> >> Emil
> >
> > We considered just using x264 (I like x264 myself) that but Mozilla
> > told us it would not work for them because it is GPL.
> 
> It would be nice for Mozilla to comment then. They wouldn't have been
> required to statically link against it or even distribute it. It is
> already possible to use GPL plug-ins with Firefox, so why is x264 an
> insurmountable problem?
> 
> Emil
> 

Maybe because it is already available and compared. Announcements and
claims work much better when you don't have to actually show anything.

Lorenzo