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Originally Posted by AustinChief
Yes it is true. You clearly don't understand the technology here.
Lets look at just one site, Hulu... their video is h.264 encoded... all of it. How much is available on an iTouch Senior Citizen Edition... yep .. NONE OF IT. As stated, just because it's h.264 does NOT mean it is available through html5.
Now on to YouTube, yes they support both.. kind of... they DID support h.264 and all the old videos in that format will probably remain for now... but all NEW video at 720p or higher will be WebM
And no, everyone wants ONE standard for video, it's cheaper and easier to only have to encode a file ONCE. Since Opera, Mozilla and others won't support h.264 but everyone (except Safari) WILL support WebM... WebM will likely replace h.264 almost completely with 24 months. (so says the CEO of BrightCove)
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I'm well aware that some H264 is covered in flash. But that defeats your next point: h264 is already a pseudo-standard. The differences right now are in how to distribute it. Many want flash wrapped h264, which the iPad doesn't accept. However, that same h264 file can be undressed of the skankiness that is flash and served to everyone - including Apple devices.