In a surprise move, Google announced that they won't ship the H.264 codec with Chrome in the future anymore and instead relies on their own WebM: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html
Google wants to focus their investments "in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles". Apparently, being an ISO/ITU standard that is perpetually free for streaming content on the Internet unless you either sell your content or ship an H.264 encoder (roughly, this is my understanding of H.264 is) does not fulfill this. Daring Fireball has some good questions, such as how shipping Flash with Chrome and lack of hardware decoding for all mobile devices sold until today (first hardware decoder is supposed to ship Q1/2011) fits in here. http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/simple_questions -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
