Star Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 18:51 UTC, submitted by snydeq
Internet & Networking 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.
E-mail Print r 1   · Read More · 96 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/gsn
Thread beginning with comment 371431
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Beta
Member since:
2005-07-06

Hmm, Google cares for money. And youtube already costs them like 0.5 billion a year.

How much does h264 licensing cost for serving that content? Are Google big enough to not have to pay?

What about an upstart video hoster, can they afford MPEG-LA fees?

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2