>I wonder if Netflix is having to convert video on the backend for this as well. They won't. They're using H.264 video, which all major browsers can play in HT

>I wonder if Netflix is having to convert video on the backend for this as well. They won't. They're using H.264 video, which all major browsers can play in HTML5 <video> tags now. Not so sure how they'd handle stuff like multiple audio tracks though - as far as I know they're bit of an issue now even if muxed with the video, and if you don't want to load extra audio tracks then you're pretty much out of luck since there's no decent way to play video and audio separately in sync with HTML5 at the moment (a combination of <video> and <audio> isn't exactly that reliable for this).