Apple and Microsoft are still sticking with H.264 as the primary HTML5 video format. For Google, they are supporting the open WebM project. While the aim is to make things easier, it’s actually more complicated since not all companies are working on the same WebM format. For instance, Google Chrome won’t support H.264 already.
Anyway, starting today, all new videos uploaded to YouTube are transcoded into WebM. YouTube will continue to transcode the existing videos to WebM. Since YouTube is the largest video sharing site, no doubt Google will be able to “force” people to use the WebM video standard.
Thankfully, YouTube said they will continue to support H.264 codec. Otherwise, our iOS platform could be the first victim since WebM is not supported yet.
【Via Winandmac】
