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HTML5 video is effectively a tech demo at the moment. Nothing relies on it. The HTML5 video situation doesn't really feel worth discussing until Google plays th
by natrius 17y ago
HTML5 video is effectively a tech demo at the moment. Nothing relies on it. The HTML5 video situation doesn't really feel worth discussing until Google plays their hand in regard to On2 VP8. If they freely license the codec and promise to use their patent arsenal to defend licensees against lawsuits, VP8 will become the most practical license, except for low-powered devices like mobile phones until chips are developed to encode and decode the format via hardware.
Firefox's current H.264 stance isn't practical, but it doesn't have to be. HTML5 video won't matter for years (I'd estimate two years after the release of IE9), and by then, the landscape will have changed.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoA main design consideration of VP8 was fast decode on low powered mobile ARM chips. This is similar to Windows users being confused that Mac OS X or Linux doesn't need anti-virus, and actually thinking this is a fault with these strange new operating systems. H.264 is just a bit of a pig and yet its resulting requirement for special considerations to be made to compensate is interpreted as a failing in others that don't need it.