Chrome 將取消 H.264 支援
 

The web’s open and community-driven development model is a key factor in its rapid evolution and ubiquitous adoption. The WebM Project was launched last year to bring an open, world-class video codec to the web. Since the launch, we’ve seen first-hand the benefits of an open development model:

•Rapid performance improvements in the video encoder and decoder thanks to contributions from dozens of developers across the community

•Broad adoption by browser, tools, and hardware vendors

•ndependent (yet compatible) implementations that not only bring additional choice for users, publishers, and developers but also foster healthy competition and innovation

We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles. To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.

These changes will occur in the next couple months but we are announcing them now to give content publishers and developers using HTML <video> an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their sites.

Posted by Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/ht...-in-chrome.html

這本來就是早晚的事,沒什麼好奇怪的
相關討論網路上就有很多,現在算是正式開始

apple h264 vs google vp8

Don't Be Evil ?

看樣子要找別的browser來用了。

對使用者不方便而已, 稱不上evil.
不過既然chrome開放外掛程式, 以後可能有人寫出支援的外掛吧.

取消 H.264 的意義是

"大量流行後，哪一天突然 H.264 說有新的名義要收錢(比如說網頁瀏覽不收錢，但是手機播放串流時要收錢)，業界跟消費者就慘了"

之前 gif 說要收錢就是一例。 (後來免費的 png 就開跑，慢慢的把 gif 取代掉....)

其實h264是mpeg的standard，所以應該是 MPEG H264 V.S. Google VP8，這有點像是微軟之前一直被批評的喜歡自創標準的行為，不過 VP8 又是免費又是開放，所以我才在don't be evil後打個問號。

其實很多人看到這個新聞後都大驚小怪
Chrome不支援H.264跟能不能在Chrome上看H.264根本是兩回事
現在的Firefox 3.6.x跟IE 8都不支援H.264
但是用這類不支援H.264的瀏覽器時你可曾遇到過困難？
那這些不支援H.264的瀏覽器又是如何看H.264的呢？
利用FLASH就可以了！

而事實上大部分用有支援H.264瀏覽器的人看H.264影片
事實上用的並不是瀏覽器自己原生提供的支援
將近99%都是靠ADOBE的幫忙
目前HTML5 H.264的應用根本就不普及
YOUTUBE的HTML5測試版根本沒幾個人在用
對GOOGLE來說他們還有個WebM
放棄支援H.264其實一點都不奇怪！