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Open Source H.264 Codec
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Hey Cisco. What about making an OpenH265? #3795

Open Videogamer555 opened 1 month ago

Videogamer555 commented 1 month ago

FireFox is only able to play h264 videos because of your free codec (OpenH264) that Mozilla (the makers of FireFox) use in their browser. Otherwise they'd need to pay a patent fee. Same issue is now happening with h265, but you don't seem to offer a free h265 codec yet. Cisco, please consider making an OpenH265, so that the makers of FireFox can add that to their browser. Right now, there's lots of sources of h265 videos, that can't be played in FireFox. Instead I'm forced to use Google Chrome to play these, and that thing vacuums up all your personal info on your PC for selling targeted ads (something Google is really big into doing). That's why I've actually uninstalled Google Chrome now, but now I can't play h265 videos in a browser anymore. There's a completely new type of DVR/NVR out there now that records directly to h265 files, and doesn't support recording h264 at all (they've really jumped on using h265 because it's the best codec it seems). And these have a web-browser-based control panel to navigate the settings of the DVR/NVR as well as play recorded videos (you just connect an Ethernet cable between the DVR/NVR and your PC). Unfortunately, as long as the FireFox browser doesn't support h265, I'm forced to download the videos to the PC, and then use the VLC player software to watch them. And this problem will continue until the makers of FireFox have a legal (no patent infringement) option to play h265 videos. This situation could be completely resolved if you just made an OpenH265 codec that could be used by FireFox, in the same way that it currently uses your OpenH264 codec for playing h264 videos.

ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented 1 month ago

p. has no v.. when gov does not respect the rule of law.