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> The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other
by jbk 14y ago
> The new video format is the successor to the H.264 codec, which nearly every video publisher has standardized after the release of the iPad and several other connected devices.
No. H.264 was already used by HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, DVB (since 2004) and AVCHD.
> It seems crazy now, but once upon a time, Apple’s adoption of H.264 and insistence on HTML5-based video players was controversial — especially since most video before the iPad was encoded in VP6 to play through Adobe’s proprietary Flash player.
No. Most professional videos were using MPEG-2 and pirated movies were using Mpeg-4 part 2 (DivX, Xvid).
Seriously, Apple can do great things, but this TC sensationalism is boring and inaccurate.
Besides that, it is great to finally have H.265 ready. We'll see the fight with VP9 and Daala very soon.
- wmf 14y agoI think when TechCruch says publisher they mean Web site. If you really think about it, the Web is the entire universe.
- nolok 14y ago> If you really think about it, the Web is the entire universe _their_ entire universe
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- taligent 14y ago>We'll see the fight with VP9 and Daala very soon. Let's be realistic here. Nobody particularly cared what Google or Mozilla were doing before and there is nothing to suggest it is going to change now. It wouldn't be a close fight with just Apple but against all the MPEG companies I don't even know why they bother.
- TheCondor 14y agoHddvd and bluray use vc1
- DiabloD3 14y agoCAN use VC1, its one of 3 mandatory video codecs, H264, VC1, and MPEG2, all available up to 1920x1080. Most titles on both formats used H264, very few use VC1, even less use MPEG2.