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Everything h.264

Dear Google: removing H.264 support from Chrome is kinda evil

By , Friday, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:39 am
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Google has recently announced that they're removing H.264 -- the video compression open standard used by everything from iPad and iPhone to YouTube and Netflix -- from their Chrome browser.

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Regarding Skyfire and proxied Flash on iPhone

By , Friday, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm
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Skyfire is a browser on other mobile platforms that was at one point purely proxy-based like Opera Mini (where everything was pre-rendered on a server then pushed out to the

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H.264 goes royalty-free, web to go H.264?

By , Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:21 pm
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The MPEG LA licensing group has announced that their H.264 video codec standard would be going royalty free in perpetuity for free-to-end-user use. Why does this matter to us? Well,

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H.264 ascendant: why Apple's no-Flash, no-Theora gamble is paying off

By , Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 5:02 pm
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H.264, the video codec Apple supports for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad playback, and for the HTML5 video tag in Safari, and now Microsoft is supporting it as well, which

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TED Goes Non-Flash for iPhone (and iPad)

By , Sunday, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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As announced by Chris Anderson:

Excited about this. Non-flash version of http://ted.com is now live for iphone. Videos, comments, ratings. Hurrah!

For those maintaining score at home, that YouTube

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CBS.com to Serve HTML5 Video for iPad?

By , Thursday, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:08 am
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The Other Mac Blog and MacRumors have discovered and confirmed that CBS.com is at least testing iPad-compatible playback ahead of Apple's magical new device launch on April 3.

This new

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UPDATED: YouTube Beta Testing HTML5 Instead of Flash for Video [Now Vimeo As Well!]

By , Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:19 am
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UPDATE: Yup, Vimeo has gone and pulled the HTML5 trigger as well. Good for them. Good for us. Good for the web.

Last night, Daring Fireball linked to YouTube's

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Vimeo Adds H.264, Getting iPhone Friendlier

By , Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:51 am
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Add Vimeo to the list of YouTube, Ustream, and Stickam -- sites and services making H.264 versions of their content available for iPhone and other mobile platforms either via

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