The Video Codec Wars Continue
According to CNet’s report MPEGLA has decided to extended the free-streaming policy until December 31, 2015 for the H.264 codec. Which means that for the time being we call all continue to use the H.264 codec on the web for our video without any financial consequences.
That could spell bad news for Mozilla, who’s backing the .ogg format for the video tag in HTML5. They are in favor of an open standard like the .ogg format.
For those who are counting. Here are where the current players stand.
- Opera -.ogg (on the way)
- Mozilla - .ogg
- Google - H.264
- Apple - H.264
- Microsoft - nothing
Just another bump in the road on the web to ubiquitous web standards where video is concerned. It appears, at least for the time being that Flash is still the best way to delivery video content on the web. I guess sometimes it pays to have a 3rd party plug-in.