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by acqq 3815 days ago
Reading the comments, it's some 6%, not small for me, if the total number of users is many millions.
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Firefox users without H.264 platform codecs were affected: 100% of Windows XP users (which are about 14% of all Firefox users worldwide!), 2% of all other Windows users (the "N" and "KN" editions in Europe and South Korea), and 3% of Linux users.
Is OpenH264 still not being used for video decoding?
OpenH264 can't be used for video decoding because it can't decode the H264 profiles used to encode video on the internet; it's strictly baseline profile only which is pretty useless. The only reason it exists is because Cisco has a bunch of H264-only videoconferencing hardware that they want to be able to work with WebRTC.