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

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 2 23:22:41 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Flash isn't generally available out of the box, though, is it?
>
> In theory, no. In practice, yes. Adobe claims around 99% of all web
> users to have Flash installed.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_flash#Installed_user_base
>
> -- Hay
>

I think you have to have Flash 9 to get H264.

It's a shame they couldn't get all vendors to agree to ship both ogg and
h264 codecs.


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