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Re:WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones by Aloisius on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:11PM (#3494814)
Bing puts up a looped webm background every couple weeks.

Sadly in FireFox on my Macbook Air, it is pretty jittery every time it loops and sometimes during playback. They are pretty though like - http://www.bing.com/az/hprichv/?p=AntelopeCanyon_Mammoth_MHD...

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Re:WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones by zdw on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:14PM (#3494824)
Depending on how Firefox plays back H.264, it may not be using HW acceleration through the GPU. Quicktime, and recent versions of Flash have the right OS hooks in place to do this.
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