Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees

[Jack Moffitt <[e-mail]>]

> The thing that is hard is making a compile match an existing binary when you don't really know how the original binary was compiled. The plan here is to exactly describe the process that Cisco uses to compile (which linux distro, which version, which compiler version etc, all the build scripts etc). Then any external group, such as Mozilla, can replicate theses instructions and get the same binary. I do realize that if you build the same code on even very similar systems, you may get a different binary. I realize it is not trivial to get this to all happen but we are confident it can be done.

This sounds very fragile. Why not just create a public EC2 image that
can build the code, and then everyone will have the same setup and it
will be easy to replicate. Or even better, just a standard chef or
puppet script that uses a well known stock public EC2 AMI.

jack.