techcrunch.com — Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM Project, an open, royalty-free codec that can run in HTML5 browsers without the need for Flash.Up till now, the battle between Flash and HTML5 vid
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kiddcodeMay 20, 2010
When did flash become an open standard? You think it is because it plays webm video?
tnoyMay 20, 2010
If Google changed YouTube to be 100% the new codec, they'll have to.
arcookeMay 20, 2010
I'm pretty sure apple will add flash support. There's no reason for them not to.Oh, wait...
fredfredricksonMay 20, 2010
Any time your argument for something includes the phrase "so why not?", you know you've got a really weak case on your hands.
unitedatheismMay 20, 2010
Yeah, like, Theora is a piece of s**t who compress less than an uncompressed AVI file + raw pcm audio.You never encoded a theora video in your life, admit it.
fredfredricksonMay 20, 2010
@postalblowfish7 - I didn't say Apple owned it, assh**e. I said they're pushing for a proprietary codec. Doesn't matter who owns it really - it's bad idea, and I'd rather see something royalty free / open source be promoted to the standard instead.
ixamMay 20, 2010
There will always be a browser war. If its not CSS,HTML5,Javascript or codecs some browser developer will make one feature up and then the fight is on ;)
zelgadissMay 20, 2010
Nope, I have never.But I do know Google has on the record saying they prefer H.264.Youtube uses a massive amount of bandwidth, saving a few kB here and there adds up to a ton when you are serving millions of videos.Google's network engineers aren't stupid.
zaeboesMay 21, 2010
"Apple supports open standards (we get the irony, okay?)"Hardly any irony. For all the finger pointing they do at microsoft for stealing ideas, they steal from the oss community quite a bit. And by stealing, I mean taking ideas and software and not giving any credit.
unitedatheismMay 23, 2010
Ok, so next time try trying before saying based on the others, come on man, it's free software!If I could only get a nickel for every single john doe who comes saying that H.264 is ultra-important for the interweb............