@kwehoo: you need a second system for that, this only needs one system. You pop in a bootable USB or a liveCD and that's it, in your example you have to get a second system, buy something connect it to your other system, run the risk of getting the second system infected. Linux is a better alternative not only for…

@JarasM: Opera doesn't support H264

@MattyMattMatt: I agree completely, it;s going to take a transition time, decoders for ogg have to be made, but in the end H264 will cost us more in the long run even if people don't see it.

@planetarian: don't think so. Businesses don't work like that.

@brundlefly76: Yeah tell the same to the world when in post 2016, when they start charging licensing fees for all implementations of decoders encoders, and people usin the format to distribute videos, yeah it's going to be real nice. It's a good codec I use it for me movies, but when it comes down to it, it's not…

@Mickets: They are all following youtube. H264, although the other day I tried one that supported Ogg, it worked quite nice.

@Eulatos: because the thing is for browsers to have their own decoders, to make the process more streamlined, plus on systems like Linux which don't have h264 license, legally you couldn't do it. I also hope Ogg wins, because H264 is just more problems for the web and that's exactly what we don't need. Ogg still has…

@radiantchains: sorry confused myself there for a second if you see any of my other posts they explain it correctly. S\orry

@David Ron: exactly, but it's six years. In six years time, everyone is going to be using h264 and we are all going to get hammered with license fees from mpeg

@Gary Wilkinson: and sticking for the consumer

@Cin: exactly people don't know how business men think. How can they think that a company is going to give free use of it's patented product, and not expect to win something down the road.

@Nitrokart knows CPR and took that guy's wallet: No they don't they just take advantage of the fact that they are not that well known, and won't be big. but if mozilla incorporated it like this, it would be beaten for not paying licenses. I mean it's technicalities, but a big company or linux group wouldn't be able to…

@handa.vish: yeah same, but I can't use HTML5 youtube on firefox.

@stan-the-man: yes opera doesn't support H264 because the licensing cost to much, and prefer an open source, free alternative. i support that.

@Nitrokart knows CPR and took that guy's wallet: actually you can play H264 in totem because you downloaded the gstreamer bad or ugly package which is not included in the OS because of licensing problems, you can play it because it installed a plug in for totem, I do the same thing, I'm not saying it's bad, but if…

@Jonathan J Cordova: Actually they are seeing the bigger picture, if h264 becomes a standard today, in 6 years it's still going to be a standard, it might be optimized and bettered but if it becomes a standard today, it's going to stay there for the next 6 years, look at mp3 it's still the standard, now people are…

@(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion: x264 is an encoder, and no they can't use it either because , it's an open source version may I say it's better than the original, but it's just and open-source encoder to encode to a closed source format. And it's not a decoder. Plus Mpeg will be watching…

@Kakkoii: no it wouldn't because it doesn't matter how smoothly it works, H264 isn't open source so it can't be implemented into the browser, it would be screened out during revision.