Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 15, 2010 @05:36PM from the join-the-fun dept.

Elledan writes "Two countries have software patents which make it impossible to freely use video codecs such as AVC (H.264). This has led to projects such as Firefox not including AVC support with the HTML 5 video tag in their releases, which makes the rest of the world suffer indirectly the effects of software patents as well. To rectify this situation at least somewhat, I have created the Wild Fox project, which aims to release Firefox builds with the features previously excluded due to software patents. This software will be available to those in non-software-patent-encumbered countries. Any developers who wish to join the project are more than welcome."

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the point? by spikeb · 2010-05-15 17:41 · Score: 1, Flamebait

firefox can't even play back theora html5 videos (try it. slow as a dog), now they want to add something else it can't do?
Re:You might be interested in... by burni2 · 2010-05-15 23:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well, thanks for this .. it's so important like the news that Richard Stallman can sometimes get mixed up with a homeless man.
Or that the main character from Torchwood is openly and 110 percent pure gay.
It's like .. fox news, nobody is interested in sex, but everybody talks about it.
Thank you for your "public service".