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More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Jan 18, 2011 0:09 UTC (Tue) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)
In reply to: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog) by JEDIDIAH
Parent article: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change (The Chromium Blog)

Nice rant, but not really relevant to what I had to say.

HTML5 addresses both the user and developer need to have a standardized video format for the web.

System codecs are NOT the answer because they give no guarantees to the content provider or the system user. There is nothing standardized about system codecs

HTML5 + WebM is the best answer. Of course, if HTML5 becomes split between HTML5/h264 and HTML5/WebM, then yes, we may as well be using system codecs


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