> IIRC they pulled a hack where Cisco is providing a decoder binary
OpenH264 is only used for WebRTC and, importantly, there's no AAC support (which doesn't matter for WebRTC because you can just use Opus). Firefox uses the OS platform's H.264 decoder for video element playback.
> which cisco was already almost at anyways, so that didn't cost cisco much
It apparently cost Cisco quite a lot more in licensing fees but they considered it worth it for the sake of integration with their video conferencing hardware. See the comments to this blog post from Monty Montgomery for some discussion on it:
> OpenH264 is only used for WebRTC and, importantly, there's no AAC support (which doesn't matter for WebRTC because you can just use Opus). Firefox uses the OS platform's H.264 decoder for video element playback.
And Firefox supporting H.264 through the platform decoder came a while before OpenH264 happened.
OpenH264 is only used for WebRTC and, importantly, there's no AAC support (which doesn't matter for WebRTC because you can just use Opus). Firefox uses the OS platform's H.264 decoder for video element playback.
> which cisco was already almost at anyways, so that didn't cost cisco much
It apparently cost Cisco quite a lot more in licensing fees but they considered it worth it for the sake of integration with their video conferencing hardware. See the comments to this blog post from Monty Montgomery for some discussion on it:
https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/61694.html
https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/61694.html?thread=439550#cmt...