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Just as the H.264 video codec is gripping much of the new video site, Google has shaken things up again. Today, Mozilla and Opera, is to launch the project Webm open, royalty-free codec that can be done in HTML5 browsers without Flash.

And "ownership of the consortium MPEG-LA, that does not charge royalties for its use today, but plans to start implementing fees in 2015. H.264 is a fast modern and light. The threat is why Mozilla charge supports an ancient code called Ogg Theora is open in Firefox instead of H.264. Apple supports H.264 in its IPAD and devices like the iPhone, and is a technical reason for Steve Jobs, in quotes, because there is less need Flash support. It is very good, except for one thing. So far, the battle between Flash and click the HTML5 video codec H.264, which is gaining wide adoption.

And, in fact, Flash is a partner in the launch of the assistive technology Webm 40. However, Google offers a lot VP8 codec, llama, which has acquired with the purchase of On2 Techchnolgies. Webm project is a new container format video files for the web. Any player can do video, including Flash. Includes VP8 video codec Vorbis audio codec open, file extensions and a new MIME type.

Safari and IE will join? H.264 Apple pushes hard enough, but there is no reason why it could not support Webm in the future. Chrome, Firefox and Opera support all Webm, Google will give a major boost performance of YouTube videos to support this. Otherwise, we would have a war on our hands web video standards.

We hope they do. . . if I were in charge I would like Google to encode (may be) of YouTube videos in the new format and strength of adoption. Apple is another story lol. . . . If your browser does not support directly to get everything he does, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. . . I am sure that Member States adopt as soon as possible.)

This is much less transparent to the users to update your Flash player instead of switching browsers, as shown in the rate of adoption. And as VP8 will be supported with the Google Flash player has a way to get the codec users 90% more quickly.

They support hardware decoding of H.264, because they are older and low-cost chip. Apple does not contain a patent for the codec and pay more to use what they do to copyright. Then, the market has led to Apple to accept. (For iProduct) The key to this work is to obtain low-cost decoder chips or at least one company (let's hope that Google claims) that will double H.264/WebM decoder chip for mobile devices.

It is the position taken with flash, so I'm not surprised, but the reasoning dumb.They should support codecs that are in use and work on getting good results, but only supports the codec provides the best performance with hardware is an advantage for the consumer. The worst performance is imaginable when you can not see the contents at all.

In addition, Adobe announced support for Webm. Why should encode videos in H.264 and Theora VP8? Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE support will include native VP8 Webm Webm if codec is installed. This means that until Apple and Microsoft includes full support for Webm, you can re-flash with HTML5 Webm if the video is not supported by your browser.

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