[opendtv] HTML 5 Codecs and Browser Compatibility


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Apples resistance to Flash is based on simple facts. It is a processor
hog
> which kills battery life, and there are better stabdards based solutions
> available today. The reality is that the majority of video content on the
> web is now available in h.264, and FLASH is growing less important by the
> day for video. It is still an important defacto standard for all those
> banner ads, but HTML5 is going to change that too.


From what I know about HTML 5, there is no ubiquitous codec and another set
of problems has been created.  According to
http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html, the three supported codecs are Vorbis
(Theora, Ogg), MP4 (H.264, AAC) and WebM.  Each browser supports, at most,
two of those.  IE 9 will decode MP4 and WebM; Firefox 4, Vorbis and WebM;
Safari 3, MP4 only; Chrome 6, Vorbis and WebM; Opera 10.6, Vorbis and WebM;
iPhone, MP4 only; and Android 2.3, MP4 and WebM.  Of course, nothing stays
the same in this game so perhaps this is not accurate any longer.

Dan

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