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YouTube Offers Experimental Opt-In HTML5 Video
bonch writes "YouTube is now offering the experimental option to view all YouTube videos using HTML5 in H.264 format. Supported browsers are Chrome, Safari, and the ChromeFrame plug-in for Internet Explorer. Captions, ads, and annotations aren't yet supported but are coming soon."
Just exterminate all the Mudslums from the world. Kinda hard to force your woman to wear a burka that covers everything but her eyes if your in a 20 foot deep crater.
Women in Saudia Arabia aren't allowed to drive. Is it really such a stretch to say that Saudi Arabia shouldn't be allowed to exist?
Let's be real here. The only reason we put up with Muslims' bullshit is that they happen to be sitting on a bunch of oil. What you may not realize is that we can wipe out the Muslims and still take their oil. We're about 25% finished doing this in Iraq.
Seriously, if a religion is so nuts that they can't handle their profit being pictured wearing a suicide bomb, but are more than happy to slap a suicide bomb on to a fellow Muslim and march him in to a cafe full of civilians, it doesn't deserve to exist.
Is anyone seriously thinking that Google will triple* its storage capacity just to have a Theora version for Firefox users and then waste twice* as much bandwidth for those same Firefox users?
* every time I hear about Theora people say it needs twice the bandwidth to achieve the same video quality as H.264
you can easily see for yourself that, when comparing Theora and h.264, you get pratically the same quality with the same file size
Please, look at some videos and tell me that again with a straight face.
I love the discussions every time Theora comes up. Every comparison, except the ones by Xiph themselves, are automatically FUD. Xiph doesn't do comparisons between Theora and H.264. They do comparisons between Theora and youtubes H.264 encoder. It doesn't use some of the important features in the standard in order to support older hardware and even disregarding these restrictions it's not a very good H.264 encoder quality wise. Even then Xiph usually uses easily compressible sources (animation) in their comparisons, sources where differences are harder to spot.
If it was HTML5, it would be supporting Ogg Theora, not the crap Apple's offering.
Furries make the internet go.