Media is now opensource

[Richard Bair]

We don't support it, and frankly there hasn't been any demand. I think along it easier to plug in codecs and letting developers do this (vs having built in support) is the way to go because shipping codecs with the platform (not app) is fraught with legal headaches.

> On Oct 18, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does JavaFX support VP8 and, if not, when will it support it?
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>> On 19 October 2013 11:16, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > Is the fact that the VP6 decoder is not included because of a legal issue?
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>> Yes, we don't own the code (Google does!) so we can't release it. Google has opened VP8, the successor to VP6, but not VP6.
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>> Richard
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