2012
Mozilla grudgingly adopts 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.
The SD x264 TV Releasing Standards 2012
Scene release rules
2011
Chromium Blog: HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome
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.
2010
No, you can’t do that with H.264
This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they like. Unfortunately for them, it ain’t so.
Well, I'm Back: Video, Freedom And Mozilla
This is a good time to restate the facts and re-explain why Firefox does not support H.264.
Try our new HTML5 player! on Vimeo Staff Blog
by 1 otherThe 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.
Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos
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).
2009
Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate
by 1 otherThere is a clear need for an open alternative, but the codec controversy could make it difficult.
2008
Theora vs. h.264
A lot was said lately about the Vorbis/Theora vs h.264/AAC situation on the draft of the HTML5
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