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Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the patches-are-welcome dept.

nk497 writes "Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video — thanks to Microsoft. The software giant today unveiled the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which will let users of the Google browser play H.264 video after it was dropped from Chrome over licensing issues. 'At Microsoft we respect that Windows customers want the best experience of the web including the ability to enjoy the widest range of content available on the internet in H.264 format,' said Claudio Caldato, Microsoft interoperability program manager."

2 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. Memory Leak by Utopia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft's H.264 addon for Firefox has a bad memory leak.
    See http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/971988-memory-leak-in-html5-extension-for-windows-media-player-firefox-add-on/

    So this might be bad for Chrome.

  2. Re:And Yet, No Ogg Theora in IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Theora is also quite useful, given that the Wikimedia projects only accept free formats. You're not going to be able to upload your video in H.264 there, and they're a big enough player for this to actually matter.