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Re:WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones by unicornporn on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:37PM (#3494887)
Sorry for nitpicking, but I don't think we should compare a container format (WebM) with a video compression format (H.264 or VP8). A container format isn't very likely to have hardware acceleration.
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Re:WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones by asomiv on Saturday January 21, 2012 @06:35PM (#3495034)
WebM isn't a container format. It's a standard which specifies MKV (container) + VP8 (video codec) + Vorbis (audio codec).
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Re:WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones by jensnockert on Saturday January 21, 2012 @06:10PM (#3494976)
WebM always contains VP8 video though, otherwise it is a Matroska file.
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