HTML 5 video, ogg ot webm? ...or just mp4?

**nico-t** · 12-05-2012, 05:20 AM

isn't mp4 the best for multi platform?

**digitaldivas** · 12-05-2012, 05:21 AM

yes, in every browser except for firefox, it seems

**EddyTheDog** · 12-05-2012, 05:29 AM

Its a fucking minefield...

Someone is paying someone to make this such a mess.

HTML5 is/was supposed to clean things up - but it seems to have made it worse.

**digitaldivas** · 12-05-2012, 06:04 AM

i guess it all has to do with licensing. mp4 is lincensed, but it does not go into effect until 2016, wheras oog and webm are free codecs, that is why firefox opted to go with it, apparently, but i do agree, it is confusing.

**borked** · 12-05-2012, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by EddyTheDog

Its a fucking minefield...

Someone is paying someone to make this such a mess.

HTML5 is/was supposed to clean things up - but it seems to have made it worse.

I hear Adobe is getting all fired up and getting into the HTML5 ring, since man+dog is abandoning flash....

this is gonna get messy - what was supposed to be a standard is far from being one and going the same way as every other HTML spec.

**fris** · 12-05-2012, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by digitaldivas

Just wondering what your encoding your video too, if your doing it in multiple formats?

Also, can you see this video in IE9?
http://tube-erotique.com/wordpress/busty-lesbian-sex/

i use mp4 with flash fallback

**borked** · 12-05-2012, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by digitaldivas

i guess it all has to do with licensing. mp4 is lincensed, but it does not go into effect until 2016, wheras oog and webm are free codecs, that is why firefox opted to go with it, apparently, but i do agree, it is confusing.

isn't jpeg also licensed?

**NaughtyRob** · 12-05-2012, 02:11 PM

Yes they are big time.

Originally posted by borked

I hear Adobe is getting all fired up and getting into the HTML5 ring, since man+dog is abandoning flash....

this is gonna get messy - what was supposed to be a standard is far from being one and going the same way as every other HTML spec.

**digitaldivas** · 12-05-2012, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by borked

isn't jpeg also licensed?

I know the codec is patented.

**digitaldivas** · 12-05-2012, 04:47 PM

...another thing is that according to ww3, firefox has ZERO compatability issues as
well when I cannot get html5 .mp4 video to play and like it or not, mp4 is, by a landslide, the more popular codec...

see article:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp

**dlb** · 12-06-2012, 01:44 PM

I use multiple codecs for various browsers in this particular order:
1) H264 for IE9, Safari and mobile browsers
2) WebM for Firefox, Chrome and Opera
3) Flash fallback for non HTML5 browsers

**AJHall** · 12-06-2012, 02:19 PM

MP4 looks to be the way to go. Most of our customers starting new sites are not even bothering to encode Flash anymore and we've removed it from our product demo.

**Miguel T** · 12-06-2012, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by digitaldivas

Just wondering what your encoding your video too, if your doing it in multiple formats?

Also, can you see this video in IE9?
http://tube-erotique.com/wordpress/busty-lesbian-sex/

Tested in Chrome, FF and IE9, all worked.

**pamon** · 12-06-2012, 10:15 PM

totally mp4 all the way. flash fallback as fris mentioned. with html5 and mobile browsers, mp4 files are completely viewable in the browser. kind of sick of flash since it chokes too much. still see sites with WMV files and chuckle.

HTML 5 video, ogg ot webm? ...or just mp4?

HTML 5 video, ogg ot webm? ...or just mp4?

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