On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Adam Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 May 2010 17:55, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/5/20 Peter Beverloo <[email protected]>: >>> Microsoft has announced playback support for VP8 in Internet Explorer 9[1] >>> under the condition that one has to install a VP8 codec manually, albeit via >>> inclusion in another program: "In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support >>> playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a >>> VP8 codec on Windows." >>> I think that's fairly significant. >> >> I don't. They're trying to make "if you install it yourself, it'll >> work" look like they're actually doing anything at all. But they're >> not, because the same applies already to Vorbis and Theora. If >> anything, they're just offering not to deliberately stop it from >> working. > > It is quite significant: before that announcement, H.264 was to be the > only codec supported in <video> tags in IE9.⁰ Microsoft aren't > intending to allow <video> to use system codecs generally for a bunch > of reasons¹ (probably most notably around security), which has ruled > native Theora in IE9 out for now. > > Adam > > ⁰ http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx > ¹ > http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/03/follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx >
Add to that the announcement that Adobe will ship VP8 in Flash and you can get a huge installed base of the codec in no time flat - hopefully it will somehow be possible to access the installed codec library from IE9 - bingo! Silvia.
