[Foundation-l] No default codec for <video> and <audio> in HTML5

[Stephen Bain]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Hay (Husky)<huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately OGG Theora didn't make it as the default codec for the
> HTML5 <video> element in the spec. Until one of the two major formats
> (Theora and H264) is clearly the major format the HTML5 spec will not
> specify a default codec for the <video> element.

Theora supporters should be pleased with this. Theora is clearly
better supported in browsers currently implementing the <video>
element, but H.264 is way more common in the broader video
environment, particularly in terms of hardware support and support
outside the browser (in mobile devices, for example). It's much closer
to being the de facto standard of the web than Theora is.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com