Google to Drop H.264 Support in Chrome
They’re replacing H.264 support with WebM (a video codec acquired and open-sourced by Google last year). It looks like the HTML video codec pissing match is about to start up again.
They’re replacing H.264 support with WebM (a video codec acquired and open-sourced by Google last year). It looks like the HTML video codec pissing match is about to start up again.
Another shot across the bow of Flash. Vimeo embeds will use the HTML5 player automatically in browsers that support the codecs involved.
A shame, but I can’t say I’m particularly surprised. Firefox may have to join the H.264 bandwagon or get left behind.
I like the idea of Vorbis, but if I’m authoring video I’m thinking it’s not worth my time right now.