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>Google and its partners in the WebM project want to establish the codec as a royalty-free standard for HTML5 video and for web video calling using WebRTC. The
by ancarda 13y ago
>Google and its partners in the WebM project want to establish the codec as a royalty-free standard for HTML5 video and for web video calling using WebRTC.
They could also remove, as they promised, h.264 support from Chrome. You know, that would help to push VP8/9 a lot.
- dan1234 13y agoOr would it push people back to h.264 supportive browsers once they find videos from xyz site don't play?
- gtaylor 13y agoYeah. I like and use Chrome, but Firefox is back to being pretty good as well. If Google were to do something so drastic as yanking H.264 support from Chrome, I would probably re-evaluate my choice. But that's the great thing here: This is an individual choice. I think Google has enough clout in Youtube to move us forward without pulling a Steve Jobs anti-Flash stunt. At the time, there were very few alternatives to iOS in quality, but at the present time we have plenty of good browsers. A "pull-the-plug" approach would alienate a good number of users, who could just pick up and go with Firefox, or Safari, or IE, or Opera. I like that they're gradually rolling this stuff out, trying to get hardware companies to add built-in decoding, etc. It won't happen overnight, they're playing the long game.
- zimbatm 13y agonitpick: it would still be playing in Flash