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WebM video is DOA and Google might as well lay the groundwork for the next round. Major content providers don't support WebM video. Netflix, Hulu, and anyone el
by guywithabike 16y ago
WebM video is DOA and Google might as well lay the groundwork for the next round. Major content providers don't support WebM video. Netflix, Hulu, and anyone else with intellectual property to protect want nothing to do with it. So we're going to need to keep our proprietary plugins and our proprietary apps through the WebM era. Even YouTube needs to stay proprietary.
Your argument goes both ways.
- pedanticfreak 16y agoActually they are equivalent. HTML5 video tag is codec agnostic. In this instance HTML5 includes to both WebM and h264 video over HTML5. Both are DOA. So why support h264, which is scary and patent encumbered, when Google can give a little boost to its own WebM standard at no risk to Chrome's viability in the browser market?