Hulu to stick with Flash
Hulu today announced several improvements to their video player. In the announcement, Eugene Wei (VP, Product) also gave his views on HTML5 video, where he states that they are not jumping into HTML5...
View ArticleGoogle WebM: An opensource web media format
Google has unveiled WebM, an opensource and royalty-free web media format that is directly competing with Microsoft-supported H.264 video format to become the standard for HTML5 video. WebM consists...
View ArticleAdditional info on Google WebM
Previously I had posted an article introducing Google WebM, an opensource web media format consisting of VP8, a video codec developed by Google-acquired On2 technologies, which Google has opensourced...
View ArticleChitika: Approx half of the world is ready for HTML5 Videos
According to Chitika research, approx half or 46% of web surfers are using HTML5 compatible browsers. Statistics were based on a sample of 49,284,424 impressions across the Chitika advertising network,...
View ArticleMozilla to incorporate VP8 into Firefox HTML5 video
A week ago, Google has announced that it is releasing WebM, an opensource web media format, which consists of VP8, a video format opensourced by Google. According to CNET, Mozilla is already working on...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Dev has implemented WebM Video
For those who can’t wait to try out WebM HTML5 video, Google Chrome Dev channel has released a version that implemented WebM HTML5 video. TechCrunch has tried Google Chrome WebM on YouTube’s HTML5...
View ArticleYoutube Updates Embed Code to Offer HTML5
Youtube has announced that it has updated its embed HTML code to offer the option to deliver embedded videos using HTML5 instead of only the traditional Flash version. The new embed HTML code uses an...
View ArticleChrome Ditches H.264 Codec
Opera doesn’t support it; Firefox doesn’t support it; and now Chrome has announced that it’ll drop support for H.264 video codec for its <video> element, and will support only WebM (VP8) and...
View ArticleYouTube Starts Converting All Videos to WebM Format
The world’s largest video-streaming website has announced plans to store all their videos in the WebM format and have already started to transcode all new uploads to this format; work is underway to...
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