Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 [LWN.net]

Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 6:47 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 by bcombee
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

... 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

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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 (subscriber, #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