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Vimeo Also Introduces HTML5 Video Player

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-set-top-boxes dept.

bonch writes "Following in YouTube's footsteps, Vimeo has now introduced its own beta HTML5 video player, and like YouTube, it uses H.264 and requires Safari, Chrome, or ChromeFrame. The new player doesn't suffer the rebuffering problems of the Flash version when clicking around in the video's timeline, and it also loads faster. HTML5 could finally be gaining some real momentum."

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  1. Google acquired On2, makers of video codecs by dracvl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google recently acquired On2, makers of the Ogg Theora (aka VP-3) codec which was released into the public domain and then taken over by xiph.org.

    On2 have codecs VP-7 and VP-8 which have equivalent (if not better) quality than h.264.

    It would not be surprising if Google made those codecs available, since they aren't patent-encumbered, and Google is heavily invested in HTML5 --and likes open standards.

    This would be the ideal outcome. h.264 is a really bad option.