Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

Posted Jul 7, 2009 13:42 UTC (Tue) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5 by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

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