Google Drops H.264 Codec Support In Chrome To Focus On Open Codecs
The video codec H.264 is in the news again. Earlier when HTML5 video was the new rage, Firefox and Opera decided to not to support H.264 because of it is a proprietary codec. Instead they decided to support the open Ogg Theora. Safari and Chrome choosed to support H.264 because Theora’s performance was deemed unsatisfactory. Chrome supported… |