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HTML5 h.264 support for windows 7/OSX
Things aren't looking good for theora sadly, and the most popular sites like youtube only support h.264, and Microsoft also announced IE9 will also only support h.264, and A Patent Pool Is Being Assembled to Go After Theora
Opera will be left behind without support for h.264. Windows 7 and OSX include h.264 decoders so opera would not have to pay license fees to utilize it on those platforms, I think opera should include h.264 support for them.
Should opera add h.264 support for html5?
| Option | Results | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don't Care |  |
3% | 2 |
| No | |
30% | 18 |
| Yes | |
67% | 41 |
| Total number of votes: | 61 | ||
Linux already can play H.264 with the current GStreamer implementation.
I know there is some DirectShow plugin for GStreamer for Windows. This should fix this problem for Windows Vista/7 Users. Users of older Windows versions could easily get some free codec.
As for Mac: I don't know if there is some GStreamer-QuickTime bridge... But I guess there is.
The very big PRO of this approach would be, that every platform could use its own video hardware acceleration!
(If nothing else stated the most current weekly) on a nice Dell Studio XPS 16!
Originally posted by ViperAFK:
And Steve Jobs is an idiot, he doesn't know if one is being assembled.
Originally posted by ViperAFK:
Should opera add h.264 support for html5?
No, wait for Google I/O; there should be an interesting announcement.
However, this may end up being a support nightmare as dodgy codecs can wreak havoc on a user's machine (there was a time where nearly every piece of software I tried that used MPEG-2 in some capacity ended up installing buggy or trial versions of MPEG-2 decoders, which meant that unrelated pieces of software started crashing or displaying watermarks until I uninstalled or at least reduced the merit of those new codecs).
In an ideal world it would be nice to use open standards, but h.264 is here for now, so I voted Yes.
Originally posted by benryves:
On the one hand, it would be quite nice if Opera could use DirectShow on Windows so it would support whichever codecs the user had installed. This also would allow for the use of filters like ffdshow which can be used to perform useful operations on sound and video (e.g. improved upscaling, artefact removal and noise reduction).
However, this may end up being a support nightmare as dodgy codecs can wreak havoc on a user's machine (there was a time where nearly every piece of software I tried that used MPEG-2 in some capacity ended up installing buggy or trial versions of MPEG-2 decoders, which meant that unrelated pieces of software started crashing or displaying watermarks until I uninstalled or at least reduced the merit of those new codecs).
In an ideal world it would be nice to use open standards, but h.264 is here for now, so I voted Yes.
Yes, but with windows 7 the need to install "codec packs" and the like it greatly reduced with windows 7 as it plays every most common format out of the box (xvid, h.264 ect..)