HTML 5: Theora against H.264, fighting encrudece

January 26, 2010 by Ventejuy
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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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  1. NeOnsKuLL on Tue, 26th Jan 2010 15:24

    2. How would I vote in the poll request that includes support for Theora Youtube, but I happen to be in Cuba, so I can not access certain parts of the sites and Google services, by the grace of the blockade. Already tried via a public web proxy, but has much the happy paginita JavaScript, and as proxies also disables scripts, then I am bound hand and foot.

    Regards

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