YouTube going WebM
YouTube going WebM
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Of course its an increase in cost to encode every single video into an additional format, as well as reencode all existing video (of which YouTube has completed about 1/3 according to their blog post on the topic).
I don't think Google will be dropping h.264 support on YouTube. That would be a bad idea considering how widespread h.264 is and how poorly supported Web M is by comparison. IE doesn't support it, iOS doesn't support, and even earlier Android devices don't.
Instead I think Web M is an insurance policy for them, to prevent the chances that MPEG-LA ever charges high licensing fees for h.264. And recently MPEG-LA did announce that h.264 will always be free for any video served free to the user, which is a good start.