Google kills H.264 support in Chrome

Google kills H.264 support in Chrome
Your move Apple: Google announced that it is to change Chrome support HTML5 ‘video’ are, in Google believes to open more development friendly. The H.264 codec is removed for the benefit of the Theora video codec and VP8 and any higher quality, open codecs. The resources that were used on H.264 will be used instead to support these open technologies.
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Google is dropping H.264 support from Chrome in favor of WebM
Reputed as a step toward royalty free and open codecs to support the web, Google has announced that it will at the distance of the popular H.264 video codec from the web browser Chrome in favor of its own WebM format. It is a strange move, and despite Google claims that this is all about promoting open standards, [...]
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Google drops H.264 video support from Chrome
The Web giant has said it will remove Chrome support for the H.264 video codec, as it moves to open its own codecs like WebM Technology (ZDNet UK – Desktop Apps)
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Google kills H.264 video support in Chrome
Your move, Apple, Google announced that it will change Chrome support for HTML5 video tag, Google is believed to open more development friendly. The H.264 codec is removed for the benefit of the Theora and VP8 video codecs, and all higher-quality open-source codecs. The resources that were used to H.264 instead be used to support these open source technologies.
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