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On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Justin Dolske wrote:

> On 3/12/12 7:29 AM, Joe Drew wrote:
> \
>>> This is great. We really need this on Android where many mobile =
sites
>>> only use h.264 video.
>>=20
>> I don't see why this matters. At the time we shipped Theora (and =
WebM),
>> most _desktop_ sites only supported h.264 (mostly through Flash).
>=20
> To put it another way:
>=20
> We had these exact same discussions back when we first shipped Theora, =
including the issue of H264 on mobile (then with Fennec-on-Nokia).
>=20
> Rather that just rehashing the same arguments, I'd like to ask what's =
changed such that we need to reopen this issue?

I guess nothing has changed.  The market didn't adopt any new codec.  =
h.264 video content is what continues to be used everywhere and our =
browser just falls down there.

Doug=