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Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rally-behind-the-big-dog dept.

An anonymous reader follows up to yesterday's Google announcement that they would drop H.264 support from Chrome. "Thomas Ford, Senior Communications Manager, Opera, told Muktware, 'Actually, Opera has never supported H.264. We have always chosen to support open formats like Ogg Theora and WebM. In fact, Opera was the first company to propose the tag, and when we did, we did it with Ogg. Simply put, we welcome Google's decision to rely on open codecs for HTML5 video.'"

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  1. Since when do we listen to Oprah about this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    She should stick to getting her TV channel up and running, and not meddle in the technical details of how the video is encoded and viewed.

  2. Re:Bad research.... by Haedrian · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It will be interesting to see if major browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari will follow the suit and drop support for H.264."

    Fixed that up for you