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But why do you care so much? Google did what they think is right for them and the web long-term. They're not in the business of making your job easy and certain

by jarek 16y ago

But why do you care so much? Google did what they think is right for them and the web long-term. They're not in the business of making your job easy and certainly aren't in the business of extending ubiquity of what they feel is a harmful codec. You don't have to agree. If you don't want to re-encode to WebM then don't. The users using browsers that don't support H.264 natively will get the Flash wrapper. If they don't like it they can use a different browser that does H.264 natively or go to a different content provider who will encode in WebM. Free market. If WebM proves popular and wins the format war, we get a (FUD aside) license free codec. If it doesn't, at worst we get status quo of part-Flash, part-H.264 video experience, and at best we get your dream of H.264 ubiquity. Where's the loss?

cdeutsch 16y ago
I care because I like Chrome and was enjoying using it to play H.264 video. I may switch to Safari. I also care because I was very excited about the near ubiquity a video codec had finally reached in 2010. I don't want to go back to encoding for multiple formats (I hate you 3GP). I won't encode multiple formats until I have to, but the transition to a new standard is always painful and time consuming. If WebM "wins" I get to re-encode thousands of videos and since we now outsource that to Zencoder that means thousands of dollars to do so.
- jarek 16y ago
  Switching away from a browser is realistically the most powerful way you can influence a browser maker's decisions these days. Do it if you feel strongly about the situation. (As an aside, price for outsourced video encoding is on order of magnitude close to dollars per video? I did not know that.)
  - cdeutsch 16y ago
    It's priced $.02 to $.05 per minute so depends on how long the content you have is. We have lots of training and event content which is typically longer then a YouTube clip.

by jarek 16y ago

cdeutsch 16y ago

I care because I like Chrome and was enjoying using it to play H.264 video. I may switch to Safari. I also care because I was very excited about the near ubiquity a video codec had finally reached in 2010. I don't want to go back to encoding for multiple formats (I hate you 3GP). I won't encode multiple formats until I have to, but the transition to a new standard is always painful and time consuming. If WebM "wins" I get to re-encode thousands of videos and since we now outsource that to Zencoder that means thousands of dollars to do so.

jarek 16y ago
Switching away from a browser is realistically the most powerful way you can influence a browser maker's decisions these days. Do it if you feel strongly about the situation. (As an aside, price for outsourced video encoding is on order of magnitude close to dollars per video? I did not know that.)
- cdeutsch 16y ago
  It's priced $.02 to $.05 per minute so depends on how long the content you have is. We have lots of training and event content which is typically longer then a YouTube clip.