Do you remember those good old times when we haven’t heard anything about the “Flash killers” and playing the web video with Flash player was the option and everyone was pretty much happy with that option? Yep, those days are long gone and things are totally different today – although it is hard to tell whether it’s good or bad. HTML5 strikes the web industry with new standards and unusual solutions that will someday get a status of “revolutionary”. The latest version of hyper text markup language raises its hand against many standards and of course one of the most controversial things about HTML5 is the < video > tag debates. The problem is that the folks from W3C group haven’t decided yet on what exact codec will be used for the new HTML5 < video > tag. And therefore what we have today are the two possible candidates to do this big job – Ogg Theora and H.264 codecs.
In the red corner of the ring is the Ogg Theora – the open source video codec project from Xiph.org which in turn is being funded by Mozilla Foundation. It is not bounded by some patents and fees so it is very convenient for the users and strongly recommended by the open source software community. Non-profit status of this software is a great thing but we can’t say that this codec can give you high performance video. It means that main trump of this codec is the free distributing but the quality of the video provided by Ogg Theora codec will surely make W3C think twice about it.
In the blue corner is the H.264 codec brought by the ISO Moving Picture Experts Group (aka MPEG). This codec’s mission is to deliver the high quality video with the assumption of low bitrate. An additional goal is to allow the standard to be applied to a wide variety of applications in various networks and systems. So far sounds awesome, doesn’t it? Well take this, W3C: the main problem is that if you want to use this software you will have to pay the licensing fees to MPEG LA.
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Δεν υπάρχει κανένα πρόβλημα με το H.264 παρά μόνο πολιτικά παιχνίδια και καλά θα κάνει η Mozilla με το Firefox και η Opera να το πάρουν χαμπάρι. Μέχρι και τα ζώα στη Micro$oft πήδηξαν στο H.264. Έλεος δηλαδή.
Στη χειρότερη ας βάλουν σαν την Google με το Chrome υποστήριξη και για τα δύο codec. Σιγά το πράγμα. Αλλά κάτι μου λέει πως το H.264 ήρθε για να μείνει. Για πάντα.
Όχι τίποτα άλλο αλλά μπορώ να έχω υποστήριξη σε επίπεδο υλικού με το H.264 ενώ με το Ogg Theora όχι. Δηλαδή τι κάνει νιάου νιάου στα κεραμίδια;
Το H.264 λέμε!
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