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		JonnieCache on Nov 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A web video company that is most likely a hoax H.264 is not "free software." You're thinking of x264, the free software implementation of H.264 that everyone uses. There is a large market for proprietary optimised implementations of various codecs for use in industry. The same goes for mp3 and so on. Unless people have found x264 headers left in the files, in which case, fail.

MichaelGG on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

Try clicking on DarkShikari's username.

the_philcoder on Nov 9, 2011 | | [–]

Nice. :) This made me register an account here at HN so that i can post comment. Thanks for the heads up!

DarkShikari on Nov 9, 2011 | [–]

Look elsewhere in this thread. The files have x264 headers.

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