Google created a new WebM video standard that’s royalty free and high quality in May 2010, but now they’re ready to fully push this new standard. Though, they’re doing it in a very harsh way, and that is by dropping off support for rival H.264 codec in its HTML 5 video tag in chrome. That’s right. Chrome will not be able to playback H.264 videos anymore. From now on, Chrome users will have to download a H.264 plug-in to play most web video that’s not bundled up in Flash. Talk about open standard. Well, don’t worry; we still have Firefox at least.

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