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		Malic on May 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebM - an open web media project If YouTube goes WebM, it's hard to imagine that Apple won't be forced to cave in on this one. And it's hard to imagine that Google wouldn't re-encode the whole of YouTube (geez, the CPU cycles!!!) But I would expect legacy support of H.264 by YouTube for some years to come. So even if Apple does switch their preference, it could be quite some time.

mbrubeck on May 19, 2010 [–]

Over a million YouTube videos are available in VP8/HTML5 today, and that number will continue to increase.

http://www.webmproject.org/users/

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/

tvon on May 19, 2010 | [–]

? I'm not seeing any mention of VP8 there.

mbrubeck on May 19, 2010 | | [–]

Sorry, that wasn't the best URL. Updated it to one with more info.

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