Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 6, 2009 22:55 UTC (Mon) by bcombee (subscriber, #40068)
In reply to: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 by liljencrantz
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Google is being more neutral... they are implementing Ogg support in Google Chrome.

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 6:47 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

... but not switching YouTube to use Ogg or atleast prefer Ogg suggesting that Ogg Theora doesn't meet their quality requirements while ignoring the fact that for a long time, they were using lower quality video doesn't seem that neutral to me.

http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 13:42 UTC (Tue) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (1 responses)

How long do you suppose it would take youtube to re-encode their video base? I think the amount of resource required to do that means they have to take codec decisions very seriously.

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 16:16 UTC (Tue) by davide.del.vento (guest, #59196) [Link]

They didn't say that re-encode is unpractical (which I think with their huge machine number isn't). They *incorrectly* stated that Theora would take much more bandwidth than H.264, by the voice of Chris DiBona, fake open source program manager at Google. Please read the link before commenting