Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 2, 2011 @05:14AM 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."

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OS by truthsearch · 2011-02-02 05:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

I still believe that every browser should rely on the codecs installed on the OS. Every platform (and optionally the user) can then choose what they want.

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Re:Memory Leak by alvinrod · 2011-02-02 05:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

Well there's that, the intensive CPU usage, kernel panics, and it giving you cancer.

But it's still better than Flash.