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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Last I heard mozilla browsers were avoiding official h.264 support. Also google is speaking of officially pulling h.264 support in Chrome: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/htm...in-chrome.html
As an affiliate I can't tell you how many sites I have been unable to promote fully because the promo material offered was in a format which I was unable (or unwilling) to use for one reason or another. Why not offer everything reasonable? After all you convert it once and thousands of affiliates have it. The effort should pay for itself, no? |
Yeah, Google is pushing hard to have everyone support WebM as THE format of the future and to be the "standard" for HTML5. H264 has the licensing issue which could fuck over everyone in the next couple years... Google doesn't think there's any issues with WebM but that's still to be seen.. There are those that have had a deep look at it and there's a lot of similularities to H264 which could raise all sorts of patent issues just like it did for H264.
I don't really like WebM as it's actually not quite as good as H264. However, I believe that it will be the new standard going foward... ffmpeg is already working on integrating it all in.. YouTube is already using it on it's HTM5 beta site. And of course Google "claims" it's patent and licensing free... So everyone should start preparing for it.