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So close:

> Note that there are 6 separate encodings -- mp4, webm, and reduced mp4, for forward and reverse



That makes sense - looks like WebM/VP8 support in browsers is a superset of Ogg/Theora support [1]. It would be silly to serve up Ogg/Theora unless it yielded better quality/bitrate (and I'm not up-to-date on how those two compare in quality at the same bitrate).

[1] http://beta.caniuse.com/#search=video




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