Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I thought Chrome came bundled with Flash Player http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/25/google-chrome-flash/

...which supports H.264 in an MP4 container...

http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html

....so I'm not clear on what's actually happening here. Is Chrome going to just stop handing off MP4/H.264 from video tags to the bundled Flash Player even though it's there and can play it? Or will it stop bundling Flash Player? Or bundle a crippled Flash Player? None of the above?



They aren't supporting h.264 in the <video> element anymore, meaning there won't be anymore HTML5 video players that use h.264. As for Flash, who knows?


AFAIK they're not going to stop handing off video tags to Flash Player, because they never started doing that in the first place.


Yes - I'm really struggling to see why anyone who delivers video would do anything other than:

does it support H.264? if not then play with flash.

which is easy.

Especially compared to - re-encode all my stuff and change complex encoding workflows.

The average user isn't even going to be able to tell the difference.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: