Comments on: HTML5 video: 25% H.264 reach vs. 95% Ogg Theora reach

By: jstar

jstar — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:44:55 +0000

Certainly with Apples push on H,.264 things may turn around?

By: silvia

silvia — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:31:25 +0000

@alex I was comparing out-of-the-box browser support, not plugins. Indeed, there is a videolan plugin for safari, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html, and there is also xiphqt, the Xiph quicktime components, http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ . Same for windows and IE: videolan http://wiki.videolan.org/Windows and DirectShow filters http://www.xiph.org/dshow/ .

By: alex

alex — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:06:07 +0000

safari already supports theora !

the problem is people do not know it, Videolan’s web plugin already supports theora video, I have already created a plugin installation for current modern browsers, visit my website and check it out.

By: William Lacy

William Lacy — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:20:10 +0000

Time to update the numbers? Microsoft has announced HTML 5 support with H.264 in IE9

By: silvia

silvia — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:32:05 +0000

@DonDiego it seems to say through Chrome Frame.

By: DonDiego

DonDiego — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:55:53 +0000

How is Theora video hooked up into IE9 there? Through a plugin?

Counting plugins is pointless; or rather, if you do, H.264 reach becomes 99.99999% because Flash plays it…

By: William Lacy

William Lacy — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:20:22 +0000

Time to update the numbers? Microsoft has announced HTML 5 support with H.264 in IE9

By: DonDiego

DonDiego — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:58:50 +0000

Time to update the numbers? Microsoft has announced HTML 5 support with H.264 in IE9…

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-first-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx

By: silvia

silvia — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:37:04 +0000

I knew somebody would find the numbers disputable. A shame I cannot comment on Rakaz, blog! Rakaz is of course right in saying that you should count silverlight and flash as fallbacks for H.264, if you could java as fallback for Theora. This does not devalue the main number of the article, though, which is 27% vs 8% for Theora wrt native support without any plugin help.

By: 95% of statistics are completely made up | rakaz

95% of statistics are completely made up | rakaz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:25:34 +0000

[...] that they would be support the H.264 codec for the HTML5 video beta test, Silvia Pfeiffer published a completely ridiculous article in which she claims that Ogg Theora is a better choice because it has a reach of 95% while H.264 [...]