Re: [rtcweb] Google statement on codecs

Maire Reavy <mdr@reavy.org> Mon, 30 July 2012 01:44 UTC

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On 7/29/2012 5:27 PM, Timothy B. Terriberry wrote:
> Justin Uberti wrote:
>> Given the ability to deliver a royalty-free platform with no compromises
>> on quality, we see no reason to include mandatory royalty-bearing 
>> codecs.
>
> +1
>
> As Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO, outlined in his article 
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-web/ back 
> in March, we believe very strongly in keeping WebRTC unencumbered.

Absolutely!  And that stance hasn't changed.

Mandating encumbered codecswould force open-source projects to violate 
the spec (by not implementing a mandatory codec).  For this reason and 
the reasons Justin cites, we believe Opus, G.711 and VP8 are the best 
mandatory-to-implement choices for the spec.

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Maire Reavy <mreavy@mozilla.com>, _<mdr@reavy.org> _
Mozilla