- From: Maik Merten <maikmerten@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:11:19 +0200
Frank Hellenkamp wrote: > Well, the thing is (perhabs unfortunately because of patents and > liscensing) that you can use h264 with the video tag (in safari and > chrome), but at the same time you can send the same video to every old > browser with the flash player 9 or 10, because it also supports h264, > which means IE 6/7/8, old Safari, Firefox, Opera etc. > > And there is the iPhone and Android. I think nobody seriously proposes YouTube should stop providing H.264 versions :-) > With Theora, you cannot do this. Theora, however, can reach the majority of browsers implementing <video> out-of-the-box while H.264 can't (for both exist solutions building on widespread plugins - Flash for H.264 and Java for Theora). If Google sees any value in making video a first-class citizen in an open web (and I have no doubt in that) it may make sense to *additionally* provide versions in Theora so they can benefit from HTML5-media features they helped define. > All in all it looks like, it's very hard to beat h246 at the moment. Well, depending on circumstances one can also say "it's very hard to use H.264" ;-) bye, Maik
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