Fool’s Anders Byland foolishly declares a Truce in the Online Video Format War.
The format war over online video standards is over. You may not have realized there was a war at all, but this is a big deal. This is not a cease-fire, but a peace treaty with every relevant John Hancock firmly aboard.
Why? How? It’s still a mess despite the shouts of victory.
Now the MPEG LA technology licensing body has announced that the H.264 standard will join WebM on the royalty-free side of the fence until the end of time or until the standard becomes obsolete, whichever comes first.
Outside of Adobe’s Flash player, the de facto video standard, there are two main camps lining up. H.264, supported by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Opera, but not Mozilla’s Firefox. Google’s WebM video format is supported by Google, Opera, and Mozilla.
How about if we declare victory when a single standard video format is officially supported on all major browsers?
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