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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @05:10PM (#2093789)
Except that the same exact thing can be done with WebM. Native support in Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Flash fallback in IE. Ding.

The only legitimate concern with this is hardware decoding, largely in mobile devices.

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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by slimier on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:09PM (#2094907)
However, the devices with the most users which don't have flash (read: iOS), can play h264, not WebM. That would make it likely to be more often h264 with flash fallback.
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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by drivebyacct2 on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:25PM (#2094952)
"The only legitimate concern with this is hardware decoding, largely in mobile devices."

iOS can implement WebM, no problemo. The problem is, it will be pretty crummy.

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