> Apparently they are quite comfortable encoding as many as 120 instantiations of their videos. There is more to it than just the number of videos (or storage

> Apparently they are quite comfortable encoding as many as 120 instantiations of their videos. There is more to it than just the number of videos (or storage requirements). You can get dedicated hardware h264 encoders easily (and relatively cheaply), not to mention the decoders in mobile devices. There's also quality to consider, effective quality per MB (important when targeting mobile devices), and all the things that fall into that (motion handling, prediction, etc). I don't claim to be an expert, but from what I've read Ogg & WebM are fighting an uphill battle on the technical side of things. Part of this is no doubt due to h264 patents, but it's a shame the free solution isn't also the technically superior one.