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YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the when-it-happens-I'll-believe-it dept.

shadowmage13 writes "After the recent post about YouTube, so many votes were put in for HTML5 using Free and Open formats that Google has already cleared them all out (to make space for others) and issued an official response (requires Google login): 'We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to give other ideas a chance to be seen.' Now all the top ideas are concerning copyright and DMCA abuse."

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  1. Re:is html5 going to provide faster better video? by beelsebob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Faster at all 3 if we use h264 because:
    Hardware h264 encoders exist, and I bet google would use them – it would cut their power use massively
    Hardware h264 decoders are common on just about all graphics cards
    h264 can compress a video much more for a given quality than the current flash video they use

    Not faster at all if we use ogg theora because:
    Hardware Ogg encoders don't exist
    Hardware Ogg decoders don't exist
    Ogg barely uses less bandwidth than flash video for a given bandwidth

  2. Re:is html5 going to provide faster better video? by moreati · · Score: 5, Informative

    First, do you have a citation for this 'massive' reduction in power?

    Langen, Germany, October 30, 2008 - Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) today expanded its line-up of H.264*1 CODECs with two new devices that encode and decode full high-definition (HD) (1920 dots x 1080 lines) Video in H.264 format. The first of the two products to be launched, the ultra-low power MB86H55, features power consumption of only 500mW during full HD encoding including the built-in memory, an industry-leading level for low power consumption. In addition, the upcoming MB86H56 will offer processing of full HD video at 60 frames-per-second (progressive) '60p'*2, to improve picture quality even further.

    -- http://embedded-computing.com/fujitsu-full-h-264-codecs

    That's half a Watt encoding HD, a general purpose CPU would be consuming tens, or even a hundred watts to do that.

  3. Re:Well then... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's a more polite way to say, "be more like Vimeo"?

    Please be more like Vimeo

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  4. How about "Could you please ban gaming videos?" by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's a more polite way to say, "be more like Vimeo"?

    How about "I know a lot of people who, to put it mildly, aren't a fan of video games. Can you make subtle changes to your policy so that videos of video games end up all but banned?"

    Background: Vimeo bans use of its service for commercial purposes; this rules out any video uploaded by the video game's publisher. Vimeo also rejects videos uploaded by anyone other than the author; this rules out videos of game play uploaded by anyone other than the video game's publisher because they're "derivative works".