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		lovskogen on Jan 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome But the runtime will fade away. This is Google making a fresh start for the years to come. Shouldn't that start be with a open codec instead of a closed one? The de facto standard for serving <video> today is making a h.246, WebM, a OGG and a FLV (for fallback). Look at videoJS. So it doesn't mean Flash for video is sticking around.

andrewf on Jan 12, 2011 [–]

Surely the defacto standard is h.264 with FLV for fallback.

Can anyone name a single site with significant traffic cother than Google/Youtube who are doing WebM or Ogg?

lovskogen on Jan 12, 2011 | | [–]

It's a great method for start using HTML5 <video>, cross platform - http://videojs.com/

vetinari on Jan 12, 2011 | | | [–]

Wikipedia.

chopsueyar on Jan 12, 2011 | | [–]

FLV is a container format, not a codec.

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