Interesting parallel to EME. They've taken the paid for codec licences and the DRM out of Flash and built them into two smaller plugins (one binary based on secret DRM code, one binary based on open source code).

I wonder how this stacks up quality wise to x264. I thought it was a bit suspect that a few months back Cisco announced they would release this under a permissive open source licence only after H.264 was accepted as Mandatory To Implement in WebRTC, while also continuing to argue for H.264 vs VP8 using the highly regarded (though GPL/dual-licenced) x264 encoder.

Also, how can this possibly be legit according to the patent license? Or do the patent owners turn a blind eye, like Microsoft in China, and Adobe with student piracy with their eyes on not losing control?