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gerbick
2010-01-28 , 16:00
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Could you please explain what you think the relation between the "HTML"5 and H.264 is?

I mean... you can embed H.264-videos in HTML4 and XHTML1.x - and you can play other codecs than H.264 in <video> - what are you trying to say?
HTML5 uses a native <video> tag, and currently there's two camps supporting different codecs. Mozilla Foundation supports the Ogg Theora video codec because their licensing, and Apple/Google support H.264 encoded videos - which is a patented and licensed technology costing people that serve up, encode and whatnot sometimes up to $5 million per year. Think DVD's basically... each machine sold pays a license fee to the DVD Consortium.

Hope that helps.
 

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