Google is positioning itself in the battle of video codecs. His platform YouTube has announced Tuesday, April 19, all new videos uploaded to its site will be converted to open WebM. YouTube also said to have converted 30% of videos already available, which represent 99% of pages viewed by users. To reduce the weight of the videos available on the Web, while ensuring high quality, multiple encoding formats are available.
With the advent of HTML 5, the new core language of the Web, they are essentially two types of codecs that are competing in this "format war". The open format free WebM is compatible with multiple browsers, including Firefox edited by Mozilla, Google Chrome, and Opera. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 can also read this format, but by installing an additional module, made available by Google.
YOUTUBE, a strong argument to support Apple and Microsoft share the H.264 codec owner, who is the subject of licenses. In its statement, however, Google announced that it will continue "to support the H.264 codec as a key for video on Youtube. With more than two billion videos viewed daily on YouTube, Google provides in terms of an important lever to try to impose WebM format. 
With the advent of HTML 5, the new core language of the Web, they are essentially two types of codecs that are competing in this "format war". The open format free WebM is compatible with multiple browsers, including Firefox edited by Mozilla, Google Chrome, and Opera. Users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 can also read this format, but by installing an additional module, made available by Google.
YOUTUBE, a strong argument to support Apple and Microsoft share the H.264 codec owner, who is the subject of licenses. In its statement, however, Google announced that it will continue "to support the H.264 codec as a key for video on Youtube. With more than two billion videos viewed daily on YouTube, Google provides in terms of an important lever to try to impose WebM format.
- YouTube video now in WebM format (20/04/2011)
- YouTube Transcodes All new Videos to WebM Format, Re-Encodes Existing Ones (20/04/2011)
- Google hits 'fast forward' button on WebM codec love for YouTube (20/04/2011)
- All YouTube Video Uploads Now in WebM (19/04/2011)
- YouTube Now Transcoding All New Uploads To WebM (20/04/2011)
No comments:
Post a Comment