Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 13, 2011 10:32 PM EDT
ars technica; By Peter Bright
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The promise of HTML5's <video> tag was a simple one: to allow web pages to contain embedded video without the need for plugins. With the decision to remove support for the widespread H.264 codec from future versions of Chrome, Google has undermined this widely-anticipated feature. The company is claiming that it wants to support "open codecs" instead, and so from now on will support only two formats: its own WebM codec, and Theora.

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