Bundled codec has one advantage: it's guaranteed to be compatible with the brows...

Bundled codec has one advantage: it's guaranteed to be compatible with the browser.

User may not have up-to-date codecs, or could have installed some dubious codec pack with codecs that are buggy or unstable.

For average user bundled codec "just works" and it's one less piece of software to update, and one less thing that could break.

natmaster on July 24, 2010 [–]

I didn't say browsers shouldn't bundle codecs - just that they shouldn't be exclusive about them.