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.
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deathshadow
Member since:
2005-07-12

Uhm... No. Youtube and most flash videos are not in fact Mpeg4, it's On2 Technologies VP6, H.263 or H.264 has been since 2004.

As reported by Media player classic
FLV1 == VP6
FLVC == H.263

The newest iteration supports H.264, and while technically flv supports MP4 (FL4) nobody I'm aware of is actually using it that way.

The H.264 support is what really blew people's skirts up lately, since that's HOW YT has implemented that little 'HD' button.

Edited 2009-07-03 00:44 UTC

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J. M. Member since:
2005-07-24

Uhm... No. Youtube and most flash videos are not in fact Mpeg4, it's On2 Technologies VP6, H.263 or H.264 has been since 2004.

As reported by Media player classic
FLV1 == VP6
FLVC == H.263

The newest iteration supports H.264, and while technically flv supports MP4 (FL4) nobody I'm aware of is actually using it that way.


Wrong. FLV1 = H.263 (Sorenson Spark). YouTube has always been using H.263 and now it's using H.264. Old videos on YouTube are encoded in FLV/H.263, new videos on YouTube are encoded in H.264, and the container is sometimes FLV (H.264 in FLV is perfectly normal), sometimes MP4.

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lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

"Uhm... No. Youtube and most flash videos are not in fact Mpeg4, it's On2 Technologies VP6, H.263 or H.264 has been since 2004. As reported by Media player classic FLV1 == VP6 FLVC == H.263 The newest iteration supports H.264, and while technically flv supports MP4 (FL4) nobody I'm aware of is actually using it that way.
Wrong. FLV1 = H.263 (Sorenson Spark). YouTube has always been using H.263 and now it's using H.264. Old videos on YouTube are encoded in FLV/H.263, new videos on YouTube are encoded in H.264, and the container is sometimes FLV (H.264 in FLV is perfectly normal), sometimes MP4. "

AFAIK, only the "watch in HD" streams are encoded in h264. Everything else on YouTube is encoded in either H263 or VP6, both of which are outdone by Theora in its current state of play.

Also, AFAIK, YouTube is actively looking for a more viable solution than H264, because after 2010 it will cost YouTube (as it will anyone else) a small amount of money for every time they send any H264 stream to any recipient.

For a site like YouTube, that could be a lot of transmissions of a lot of videos. Even a small charge for each transmission would end up costing YouTube a fortune by the time it is all added up. This is, AFAIK, exactly why YouTube are looking now to use something else for their codec.

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memson Member since:
2006-01-01

Uhm... No. Youtube and most flash videos are not in fact Mpeg4, it's On2 Technologies VP6, H.263 or H.264 has been since 2004.

As reported by Media player classic
FLV1 == VP6
FLVC == H.263


And what people seem to ignore completely is that FLV is a CONTAINER, much like MP4 or AVI. The codec is simply the format of the content of the file. You can implement a video player plugin that handles FLV without going near to Flash... indeed Quicktime, as an example, will happily play FLV files, much like it'll also play 3GP files from my Sony Ericsson mobile phone - so long as it has the codec. VLC is much the same too.

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