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http://jilion.com/sublime/video
HTML5 video - This is the future of video on the web.
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Although an organization like Mozilla could theoretically bear the costs of a license ($5,000,000 for the current year, roughly 6% of their yearly turnover, with further price increases all but certain), downstream users of the Mozilla source code wouldn't be able to use H.264 themselves. From the open source perspective, this is unacceptable. (Using codecs installed in the OS is no solution either for Mozilla; doing so would incur large security risks, and goes against Mozilla's mission for an open web.) Opera is also opposed to the H.264 codec, mostly (?) due to the high licensing costs. Due to this stalemate, and to better reflect reality, the specification of a codec for the <video> element has been removed from HTML5, at least for the duration of the search for a solution which is acceptable to everyone.
from http://fronteers.nl/about/theora-choice
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