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major video provider on the web and you want to use html5 video Here's the sticking point -- as the article says, no one's going to go through the pain of deal
by Locke1689 16y ago
major video provider on the web and you want to use html5 video
Here's the sticking point -- as the article says, no one's going to go through the pain of dealing with VP8 transcoding and storage. Flash will be for everyone except iOS, where HTML5 H264 acts as a backdrop.
- magicalist 16y agothat's your guess, but I'll freely admit that you may be right. however, there are increasing benefits to being first-class content in a browser, and there will be at least a few major providers (youtube, maybe (someday) people encoding to theora today) willing to transcode and distribute for you. I believe (and I recognize that this is just my opinion) that web video should first be in an encoding that is free to use in any way. The only way this is going to happen is if Mozilla (and to a lesser extent, Google) make a stand now instead of waiting for one of the many long years between now and 2028 when the last h264 patent expires.