Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264

jlp2097 writes "There is a new article up on Microsoft's IEBlog explaining why IE9 will support only the H.264 codec: 'First and most important, we think it is the best available video codec today for HTML5 for our customers. Relative to alternatives, H.264 maintains strong hardware support in PCs and mobile devices as well as a breadth of implementation in consumer electronics devices around the world, excellent video quality, scale of existing usage, availability of tools and content authoring systems, and overall industry momentum – each an important factor that contributes to our point of view. H.264 also provides the best certainty and clarity with respect to legal rights from the many companies that have patents in this area.'"

Comments

360?

[Gr33nNight]

So IE9 will only support h.264, but the 360 still won't? Fix this ASAP Microsoft.

Nothing new!

[rolfc]

Microsoft park on the evil side as usual.

Re:youtube

[zoloto]

their this is basic 3th grade English people!

Re:HTML5 will be a screw job.

[smash]

Yeah... but *I* am not creating h.264 video. My camera is. And my camera (or rather, my camera's manufacturer) has a license.