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

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 2 23:12:17 UTC 2009


H264 already plays in, IIRC, 98% of browsers through flash.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html
>
> 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.
>
> -- Hay
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