When you look at HTML5 video support of the five most popular web browsers, you notice that there is not a single browser supporting the two formats WebM and H.264. Depending on your browser choice, you end up either with one or the other, but not both. Problems will arise for Internet users once the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer

The announcement that Google would remove native H.264 playback support caused quite an uproar on the Internet (see Google Ditches H.264 Support In Google Chrome). Google Chrome up to this point was the only web browser that supported H.264, Theora and WebM8 videos which was bound to change with the announcement. Two browser camps have [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Microsoft

There is still some confusion surrounding HTML5 video formats and which browser supports which. Mozilla Firefox for instance does not support the H.264 video format which means that users who encounter videos encoded in the format will not be able to view them in the browser, unless the site that is offering them is offering [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The popular video hosting site Youtube has been offering limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only directly available on Youtube after joining the beta channel. Webmasters and Internet users who wanted to embed videos on third party websites [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Google yesterday officially announced the release of the Open Source, royalty free video format WebM making it a third contender for the HTML5 video crown after H.264 and Theora. WebM video might however be exactly the compromise that most companies where looking for. You might remember that the major browser developers could not agree on [...]

Categories: The Web

You might have heard about HTML5 and specifically HTML5 Video in the news lately. How it is supposed to replace Flash based video players eventually. Some websites are already experimenting with HTML5 video players including Youtube and Dailymotion. Two standards are currently competing with each other to become the HTML5 video standard: Ogg Theora and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Internet Explorer 8 does not support the new HTML5 tags video or canvas and neither do previous versions of the Microsoft web browser. It is likely that Internet Explorer 9 will be released with full or at least partial support for those tags. Christian Adam has released an experimental add-on for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer