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Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs by wahnfrieden on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:19AM (#3693818)
You really think YouTube only stores and delivers single encodings of each video? They would just deliver a different encoding for Flash.
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Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs by ugh on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:21PM (#3694124)
Exactly my point.

That format would be h.264. And nothing changes.

Switching to WebM is pointless if all other browsers still can get h.264. That way you can’t change anything.

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