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MaxBarraclough on Jan 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)

> Chromium leverages both already

Why do they need to pay for their own licence then?

ksec on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

They dont, and neither do Mozilla if they decide to use the OS media playing framework.

But most Browsers tends to implement their own for all sort of reasons.

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