Chrome dropping h.264 support
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- Boz0
^ because it's Apple's fault for that hike to begin with.. simple as that..
but let me address your comment:
"HTML5 video is a superior choice because it removes the need for an intermediary...which has become second nature for people as it stands but actually makes very little sense."
True, however it created a cluster-fuck of argument and divide what codecs are supported universally and what will work.. this is the EXACT same problem we had decade or more ago. Not much has changed except we have now an official tag for it instead of (object/embed) thing traditionally used for video.
The intermediary software allows faster adaptation and better unification.. for example.. Flash is a container that allows you to run Sorenson, VP6, VP8, h264 videos across any platform through an embed tag. It's cross platform (sure it might have had some performance issues on certain platforms but it still ran) and Flash Player itself is a great thing because it allows you to protect content as well and have better control over it as well as add interactive layers on top of it not to mention import video with alpha channels and so much more.. Something you simply can't do in HTML5/JS as easily or at all.
You pay software to Adobe because you want to make some good stuff.. and the tools are great.. just like you have to pay for professional tools for H.264 encoding.. I don't' really how there's any difference? Actually there is.. once you create content with Flash and you export to SWF you don't have to pay any additional license.. with h.264 you do if you use it for commercial purposes. Plus, just as with h.264 having an open alternative x.264, Flash is an open specification and you can make software that exports to SWF. There are plenty of it out there.
HTML5 video will not put content creation into the hands of regular people.. I don't know what you are talking about.. HTML5 video just gives a more convenient way to embed a video.. content creation has nothing to do with it. You still need to pay for software to make that video for the most part.
And if you are so much about putting the content creation control into people's hands.. don't you think having WebM out there is actually even better considering it bears absolutely no licensing/royalties baggage?
- Interactive layers are possible...why wouldn't they be?abettertomorrow
- The HTML5 video tag is really just the equivalent of the FLV player component is Flash, rather than the entire SWF.abettertomorrow