{"id":2012,"date":"2011-01-12T12:44:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2011-01-12T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:44:15","slug":"google-drops-h-264-video-support-from-chrome-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/google-drops-h-264-video-support-from-chrome-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drops H.264 Video Support From Chrome Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the never-ending war over HTML5 video formats, Google has done an about-face and dropped H.264 video support from their Chrome browser. \u00a0The move basically means that it&#8217;s now Google and Adobe vs. Apple and Microsoft when it comes to HTML5 video. \u00a0And for web video producers, it just adds to an existing mess.<\/p>\n<p>Google will now be supporting the WebM format in Chrome. \u00a0WebM is a video codec that Google purchased and made open-source&#8230;so it&#8217;s no surprise they have chosen to support their own codec. \u00a0But if you have your videos in H.264 don&#8217;t fret&#8230;Chrome still supports Flash which supports H.264. \u00a0It&#8217;s just that Chrome doesn&#8217;t support H.264 when it comes to embedding videos with HTML5.<\/p>\n<p>Googles move \u00a0to &#8220;direct our resources towards completely open codec technologies&#8221;\u00a0drew cheers from Mozilla and the open-source crowd , but it has also drawn some pointed criticism. \u00a0Specifically, opponents want to know why Chrome is supporting Adobe Flash&#8230;which is not open source&#8230;after they said they dropped H.264 in favor of open source technologies. \u00a0In other words, why not then drop Flash support too? \u00a0 It&#8217;s a good question, but I think we all know the answer to that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the never-ending war over HTML5 video formats, Google has done an about-face and dropped H.264 video support from their Chrome browser. \u00a0The move basically means that it&#8217;s now Google and Adobe vs. Apple and Microsoft when it comes to HTML5 video. \u00a0And for web video producers, it just adds to an existing mess. Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}