Which video codec is better for HTML 5
In the community of developers, a serious dispute broke out (most of it goes backstage), which video codec to approve as a standard for <video> in HTML 5, to permanently free the web from the domination of plug-ins. Apparently, all interested parties were divided into two camps: H.264 and Ogg Theora. The first camp includes Apple and Google, and the second is Mozilla and Opera. At the same time, Google intends to implement support for both video codecs in its browser. That is, Apple remains the only vendor who is not going to support the open standard Ogg Theora.
Judging by the words of Jan Hickson (this is the editor of the HTML 5 specifications), in the near future the parties will not be able to reach a compromise, so the solution to the problem will have to be left for later. Hickson is clearly tired of participating.
Ars Technica published a comprehensive comparative analysis of both codecs, including the quality of compression and the problem with patents. Although the Ogg Theora codec is considered free from patent issues, Apple doubts this.
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There is another option - to allow the use of any codec, and to transfer the playback function to the basic functionality of the operating system (DirectShow on Windows, GStreamer on Linux, QTKit on Mac OS X), but Mozilla strongly objects to this approach, which has already invested a lot in Ogg Theora. The company says that the heterogeneity of formats will contribute to the fragmentation of content and the whole sense of the introduction of the <video> tag is lost.
Judging by the words of Jan Hickson (this is the editor of the HTML 5 specifications), in the near future the parties will not be able to reach a compromise, so the solution to the problem will have to be left for later. Hickson is clearly tired of participating.
Ars Technica published a comprehensive comparative analysis of both codecs, including the quality of compression and the problem with patents. Although the Ogg Theora codec is considered free from patent issues, Apple doubts this.
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There is another option - to allow the use of any codec, and to transfer the playback function to the basic functionality of the operating system (DirectShow on Windows, GStreamer on Linux, QTKit on Mac OS X), but Mozilla strongly objects to this approach, which has already invested a lot in Ogg Theora. The company says that the heterogeneity of formats will contribute to the fragmentation of content and the whole sense of the introduction of the <video> tag is lost.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63773/
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