PUBLIC MARKS with tags video & h.264

"The state of video on the Web today and in mobile devices in particular is pushing us to change our policy. We've declined to adopt a technology that improves user experience in the hopes this will bring greater user sovereignty. Not many would try this strategy, but we did," she added.

Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.

This is a good time to restate the facts and re-explain why Firefox does not support H.264.

The simple fact is right now h264 allows us the most flexibility to display on many devices and many players with the same file. When that changes, so will we.

HTML5 on YouTube doesn't support videos with ads, captions, or annotations and it requires a browser that supports both the video tag and h.264 encoded video (currently that means Chrome, Safari, and ChromeFrame on Internet Explorer).

There is a clear need for an open alternative, but the codec controversy could make it difficult.

A lot was said lately about the Vorbis/Theora vs h.264/AAC situation on the draft of the HTML5

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app. It's up to 5 times faster than Apple's method, works well with AVIs and MPEGs, and it's infinitely free-er.

MeGUI is the most comprehensive GUI based ISO MPEG-4 solution. It suports MPEG-4 ASP (XviD & libavcodec MPEG-4) using mencoder, MPEG-4 AVC (x264) using x264.exe or mencoder, (HE)AAC audio using BeSweet & Nero AAC encoder and MP4 muxing using mp4box. In addition, it also supports the open source wavelet based Snow codec.

Fuji Work är det första företaget att annonsera en realtids H.264 encoder. Den har en Memory Stick Duo kortplats, och är riktad mot bärbara spel maskiner som Sony PSP.

What is x264: x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. The code is written by Laurent Aimar, Eric Petit(OS X), Min Chen (vfw/nasm), Justin Clay(vfw), Måns Rullgård and Loren Merritt from scratch. It is released under the terms of the GPL license.