HTML 5: Theora against H.264, fighting encrudece
Youtube (Google) has opted initially for H.264 encoding for video site, a move that may ultimately determine the balance. Remember that it was company grew to Youtube Flash video and online technologies at the time of Realplayer, Quicktime and WMV. And it may happen again this time.
Until now, the fight was relatively even, with browsers that support one format or another, but no big video portal was clearly positioned (except for Theora daylimotion.com). Now the movement of Youtube (and Vimeo) to H.264 has set off alarm bells in Mozilla, it looks like the free choice loses strength.
Various media sector have echoed the reasons that H.264 will not be included in Firefox , which has created a stir. Since the FSF (Free Software Foundation) calls for Theora vote in polls Google .
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