{"id":4049,"date":"2011-01-11T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T22:35:55","slug":"google-gives-apple-a-slap-by-pulling-h-264-video-codec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/google-gives-apple-a-slap-by-pulling-h-264-video-codec\/","title":{"rendered":"Google gives Apple a bi#$h slap by pulling h.264 video codec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/android-iphone-war1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2748\" title=\"android iphone war\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/android-iphone-war1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/android-iphone-war1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/android-iphone-war1-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/android-iphone-war1-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Not a shock but still..\u00a0 Google have pulled direct support for the h.264 (AVC) video codec that Apple has been pushing and Microsoft has go along with. This was Apples answer to Flash video.\u00a0 However, the h.264 codec is not free, a fee has to be paid to the MPEG LA.\u00a0 The WebM codec now to be championed by Google is royalty free and open source.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To that end, we are changing Chrome&#8217;s HTML5 support to make it  consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium  project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #videocodecs\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/videocodecs\/\">video codecs<\/a>,  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. -from Google.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>One big change coming with the new HTML5 version of the Web page  description language is built-in support for video; most Web video today  employs Adobe Systems&#8217; Flash Player plug-in, which uses H.264 and other  codecs under the covers. Although HTML5 video has promise,  disagreements in the W3C standards group have meant the draft standard  omits specifying a particular codec.<\/p>\n<div>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-30685_3-20028196-264.html#ixzz1Algbqbpk\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-30685_3-20028196-264.html#ixzz1Algbqbpk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a shock but still..\u00a0 Google have pulled direct support for the h.264 (AVC) video codec that Apple has been pushing and Microsoft has go along with. This was Apples answer to Flash video.\u00a0 However, the h.264 codec is not free, a fee has to be paid to the MPEG LA.\u00a0 The WebM codec now&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/google-gives-apple-a-slap-by-pulling-h-264-video-codec\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,455],"tags":[976,974,975],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-rumor-control","tag-h-264","tag-video-codec","tag-webm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-13j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}