The disappeareance of h.264 from the web right now wouldn't be as disruptive as you think. Most mobile phones still use native players to play web video, and on

The disappeareance of h.264 from the web right now wouldn't be as disruptive as you think. Most mobile phones still use native players to play web video, and on the web, most web videos are still in Flash. I'd rather see a short term disruption anyway if that means making an open source video codec popular for the web. I still think Google needs to make Youtube work on WebM by default, and use Flash only as a fallback, if they are serious about pushing WebM. If they do that, most video websites will start using WebM overnight (granted it reaches the necessary quality by then).