Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 18:51 UTC, submitted by snydeq
We here at OSNews have taken somewhat of an interest in the new HTML5 video and audio tags, which should - some day - make embedding audio and video material into web pages as easy and straightforward as embedding images, allowing the web to finally remove the shackles of dreadful Flash video. Sadly, the problem with these new tags are the codecs; as it turns out, browser makers have not reached an agreement about what codecs to choose for video, with mostly Apple throwing a spanner in the works, and Microsoft shining in absence.
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You have to understand the difference between a software product and a format. Xvid is not a video format, Xvid is a software library that encodes and decodes MPEG-4 Part 2 (Advanced Simple Profile) video. It's just one of many MPEG-4 ASP implementations (codecs). MPEG-4 Part 2 is covered by patents just like H.264 (which belongs to the MPEG-4 family, too), and it's an outdated, inferior technology. So there is really no point in using it.