Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome

Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by danh on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @04:22PM (#2093563)

Maybe that is somehow what Google wants? It has cozied up to Adobe to the point of including flash in Chrome itself. And YouTube apparently can't be bothered to make html5 video work reliably.

I can't think of why anyone would want to promote flash, though.

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by cookiecaper on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:33PM (#2093877)

YouTube depends on Flash for its most profitable enterprises, which are advertisements before the video you're trying to watch, rental, and so forth. I don't know why they can't implement pre-show ads in HTML5, but rentals, etc., can't be done in HTML5 because they require DRM.

There was a big post a while back about all the things YouTube needs to do in Flash instead of HTML5. The fact of the matter is that HTML5 video puts several of YouTube's main money-makers out of order, at least temporarily while the logic is re-implemented.

Edit: The post from YouTube about why they still need Flash is at http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html .

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by pak on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:48PM (#2093933)

Because it locks people out of Apple mobile devices.

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by bl4k on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @09:58PM (#2094727)

I have been without flash for almost a year now and I can't remember the last time I had a problem playing a video on YouTube.

It has happen possibly twice.

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by danh on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @01:43AM (#2095251)

Really? You must be much, much luckier than I. I just headed over to YouTube, disabled the (excellent) YouTube5 Safari extension, and tried 20 random videos. Only two worked (but fullscreen is still broken).

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