- From: Maik Merten <maikmerten@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:25:23 +0200
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Perhaps then you wouldn't mind sharing the rough breakdown of how many > YouTube distributed videos are the 'high quality' files which are > encoded in H.264 and only provided on user-request vs the normal > quality, which is provided by default, and which doesn't use H.264. I think that by now also standard quality uses H.264 (at least according to the Wikipedia article on YouTube). This of course doesn't change the fact that YouTube flourished despite using a vastly outdated codec (that most likely is clearly outperformed by Theora) for years. Maik
Received on Saturday, 13 June 2009 08:25:23 UTC