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Working With Ogg Theora and the Video Tag
An anonymous reader writes "The Free Software Foundation's Holmes Wilson is just back from Berlin, where he participated in the Ogg Theora book sprint put on by FLOSS Manuals. Here is a broad look at Ogg Theora and how it fits into the push for free formats: where we're winning, what works, and what could be improved."
You're right. Linux suffered from lack of hardware support, and still suffers from lack of hardware support. Windows, like MP3, is an accepted standard that the hardware developers cater to.
But with both examples, Google has achieved the critical mass of userbase necessary to shake up the accepted standards. With Theora, they could do it for sure. Everybody loves their YouTube, if Google wants to switch codecs the browsers will all add support for fear of losing ground to Chrome. With Chrome OS, we'll finally have the OS war we've all been waiting for. Maybe.
You missed something.
The h264 support goes well beyond Windows, Linux, and OSX. Well beyond Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera. Well beyond Flash and Silverlight. It doesnt matter what Google does. You can't give the millions of existing iPhones acceptable Theora support. You can't give the millions of existing netbooks acceptable Theora support. They *do* have accepable h264 support.
The hardware support for h264 is already cheap, low powered, and mass produced for these segments.
Oh, and Linux is still a novely..
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