Last week Google killed H.264 from within its Chrome browser by ending support of said video content playback from Chrome’s HTML5 video tag. Well, they’re back again in the news, defending their radical move. Google stated that “H.264 licenses cost money; Firefox and Opera don’t support H.264 either; and big companies like Google are helping the little guy by championing this open alternative.”

It seemed that Google is ever so eager to push their WebM format to higher heights, as not only is hardware decoder IP now available for the VP8 codec, but the project team is presently readying WebM plug-ins for Safari and Internet Explorer 9, neither of which include it themselves. Good move? We shall see, when WebM gets big enough.

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