![]() Interoperability is critical on the Internet, and H.264 is the dominant video codec on the Web. Firefox will automatically download and install the appropriate binary module onto each user’s machine when needed, unless disabled in the user’s preferences. The binary modules will be available for download from Cisco, and Cisco will pay for the patent license from the MPEG LA. Here’s a little more detail about how things are going to work: Cisco is going to release, under the BSD license, an H.264 stack, and build it into binary modules compiled for all popular or feasibly supportable platforms, which can be loaded into any application (including Firefox). We look forward to collaborating with Mozilla to help bring H.264 to the Web and to the Internet. Or, as Jonathan Rosenberg, Cisco CTO for Collaboration puts it,Ĭisco has a long-standing history of supporting and integrating open standards, open formats and open source technologies as a model for delivering greater flexibility and interoperability to users. We have already been collaborating very closely with Cisco on our WebRTC implementation, and we are excited to see Cisco deepening their commitment to the Open Web. In addition, we will work with Cisco to put the OpenH264 project on a sound footing and to ensure that it is governed well. These modules will be usable by downstream distributions of Firefox, as well as by any other project. We are grateful for Cisco’s contribution, and we will add support for Cisco’s OpenH264 binary modules to Firefox soon. This move enables any open source project to incorporate Cisco’s H.264 module without paying MPEG LA license fees. Cisco has announced today that they are going to release a gratis, high quality, open source H.264 implementation - along with gratis binary modules compiled from that source and hosted by Cisco for download. ![]() The most popular codec, H.264, is patent-encumbered and licensed by MPEG LA, under terms that prevent distributing it with open source products including Firefox. As I noted last year, one of the biggest challenges to open source software has been the patent status of video codecs. ![]()
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