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		ajross on Oct 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack It's also just a software implementation AFAICT. This does nothing for people wanting to ship open source drivers for all the various hardware codecs (some of which have open source implementations already) on device SoCs. It doesn't even allow shipping the identical codec on platforms that Cisco didn't build for (e.g. no OpenBSD or uclibc for you!). Basically this sucks. Opposition to H.264 was being driven more or less exclusively by open source browsers, and Cisco crafted a compromise that was (just barely) acceptable to the people leading the fight, and did nothing for anyone else.

hsivonen on Oct 30, 2013 [–]

You should try sending OpenBSD-targetin cross-compilation scripts to Cisco.

ams6110 on Oct 30, 2013 | [–]

May not really help, since OpenBSD doesn't distribute binary blobs.

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