Tag: H.264

In an official blog post, Adobe has announced that Adobe Flash Player 10.2 will available for download from the Android Market on March 18th. 10.2 supports Android 2.2 and 2.3, as well as the Android 3.0 Honeycomb-packing Motorola Xoom. On the Xoom (and future Honeycomb tablets), 10.2 will enable hardware acceleration for h.264 video and bring better browser integration. Adobe also says that ...

Google has already announced that it would be dropping H.264 support from Chrome, but some other key players in the browser arena aren't backing down. Microsoft, of course, is standing behind MPEG-LA's codec -- and now it's making sure that Chrome users will still be able to view HTML5 video embeds which are encoded with it. The magic will be handled by a new browser add-on called Windows Media ...

Miro, the cross-platform all-in-one media center app, made a big splash when it introduced Miro Video Converter last year. Now, the versatile (and free!) video conversion app -- known for its ability to convert to both WebM and H.264 video formats -- has landed in the Mac App Store. Of course, Miro Video Converter is still available to Windows users (and Mac users who don't have the latest ...

Vid.ly, a one-stop shop for uploading, transcoding and sharing video content for all screen-sizes and devices, has just come online. You'll need a beta key to sign up, which you can freely obtain from Mashable, TechCrunch or hacks.mozilla.org. In essence, Vid.ly simply lets you upload a raw movie, and await an email notification to tell you that the upload and transcode has been completed. You ...

After Google's announcement last week that it would be dropping H.264 HTML5 video support, the tech world exploded. As the dust settled -- as the fragments of brainless bile drifted slowly back to the tech blog morass -- it became clear that there were two evenly-split sides. Half of the tech world, spearheaded by TechCrunch's slavering Siegler, felt that Google had figuratively defecated on its ...

Google has just dropped a bomb shell: Chrome will no longer support H.264 HTML5 video playback. The open-sourced WebM (VP8) and Ogg Theora video codecs will be the only options for HTML5 video. H.264 will not be dropped immediately, but probably with the next stable build of Chrome. Google cites plenty of damning reasons for the exiling of H.264. Open codecs are improving faster, thanks to the ...

Mozilla doesn't support the proprietary H.264 video format in Firefox, but Microsoft does. While Mozilla has been pushing open-source WebM as the format of choice for HTML5 video tags (with Google's help), Microsoft has released a new plug-in that lets Firefox take advantage of Windows 7's native H.264 support. The plug-in looks for HTML5 video tags and passes the video to the Windows Media Player ...

Adobe has added support for HTML5 H.264-encoded video to its Photoshop.com photo and video sharing site, and adding an HTML5 video playback widget to Dreamweaver. That means that Photoshop.com videos are now playable on any device that supports H.264, including Apple's iPhone and iPad, regardless of whether it supports Adobe's own Flash Player. The Dreamweaver team's HTML5 Video Player widget, ...

MPEG LA, famous for nothing other than a portfolio of pretentiously pathetic patents, has finally taken a swing at the rapidly gaining popularity of its free-as-in-matted-beard competitor, WebM. Rather than running out in 2016, the license to stream H.264 will remain free forever. This is a reactionary move to battle the rallying of Mozilla, Google and Opera behind the WebM video standard. As ...

Now that the VP8 video codec has been open sourced and we've been told numerous apps (including four of the top-5 web browsers) will support Google's WebM, maybe you'd like to test it out? You're in luck: Google, Mozilla, and Opera have preview builds ready to go! Bear in mind that this is the first cut at implementing WebM, and it's not perfect. While the standard-def trailers I watched on ...

I'd love for fifteen or twenty minutes to go by without my Google Reader barfing out yet another piece of software patent or "HTML5 video codec war" news, but that's how it is. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the video tag didn't become standardized until HTML6 or 7. One serious downside to the lack of consensus is the fact that your browser may very well not have built-in support ...

In a bold, blunt and brash announcement that must surely be intended to up-stage Steve Jobs' open letter to Adobe, the IE9 development team has stated that their new browser will only support H.264. This heralds the death of Ogg's Theora codec -- but OSnews says it better than I ever could. It also comes hot on the heels of news that Google's VP8 codec will be open-sourced... though I dare not ...

Dubbed 'Gala', a new beta version of Flash for Mac OS X is now available. Adobe is quick to point out that it's aimed at developers, to make sure the player is compatible with content all over the Web, but there's no reason you can't jump in and test it yourself! The hardware acceleration should work with all Mac computers that sport a recent NVIDIA graphics card (9400M, 320M and 330M). Also, ...

Rumors are swirling about Google's plans to release VP8, the video codec that powers YouTube, as open source. That could put an end to the HTML5 video wars between open codec Ogg Theora (backed by Mozilla, and backed by Google on mobile devices) and H.264, the proprietary codec favored by Apple and Microsoft (in IE9, anyway). VP8 arguably offers better quality than Theora, and it wouldn't ...

With the showdown between Apple and Adobe over the relevance (or lack thereof) of Flash video, you're going to be reading an awful lot about HTML5 video in the near future. Although it's not completely ubiquitous yet, YouTube and Vimeo have already started to support HTML5. Things are also looking up for folks who want to use the HTML5 <video> tag to embed videos on their own sites. Jilion, ...