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Google starts using HTML5 and WebM for premium content

From gigaom.com - March 1, 2013 2:12 PM

Google has quietly started to switch some aspects of its premium content offerings to its open source WebM video format. Google’s WebM product manager John Lutherexplained during a developer Hangout Wednesday that YouTube and Google Play video rentals are now using WebM as opposed to Flash on Samsung’s Chromebooks. “We will be rolling that out on more Chrome OS devices and other platforms soon,” he added.

Luther went on to explain that Google did a lot of work on the security layer that delivers the videos encrypted to an HTML5 player. “As far as I know, we are the first to ever do that,” he said.

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Nicolas Weil's comment, March 5, 2013 4:32 AM

Yes, interoperability of HTML5 security doesn't seem to be Google's priority, compared to locking down their ecosystem around YouTube. That's really a concern at a time when we need big players to move forward coordinated at least around DASH and Common Encryption.

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FOMS Workshop and the State of Open Web Video

From html5video.org - September 23, 2012 10:28 AM

The 2012 FOMS workshop took place in Paris, France. The working meeting consisted of focused sessions dedicated to bridging gaps among browser vendors and ensuing associative APIs meet the needs of developers that are making use of them. Browser vendors represented included Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. Players platforms such as Youtube, BrightCove / VideoJS, Long tail / jwPlayer and of course Kaltura were also represented.

Organised by Siliva, the meeting has long severed as a great space to hack and ‘get things done‘ in the open media standards and software space. This year was no exception. In this post I highlight some of the sessions that took place and provide a rough summery of the state of associated web video APIs & components : WebRTC, Media Source Extensions / MediaStream Processing API, WebVTT, New Codecs...

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Shaun the Sheep : an experiment using hardware-accelerated HTML5 video, 3D CSS Transforms, and WebM

From www.chromeexperiments.com - January 5, 2012 3:34 PM

Shaun the Sheep, An HTML5 Video Experiment

Watch Shaun and his friends' antics in clips from "An Ill Wind", "Snowed In", "The Big Chase", and "Twos Company" through an interactive experiment created with hardware-accelerated HTML5 video, 3D CSS Transforms, and WebM. Use the controls to expand and shrink the video, rotate the scene, bring up a rotating carousel of videos, turn on puddle reflection, and navigate between videos in a snap.

HTML5 and CSS make these advanced functionalities (and more!) a part of the modern web standard, and allow developers and artists to create immersive, imaginative experiences for everyone to enjoy.

Requirements:Windows Vista/Mac OS X 10.6 or above, Google Chrome

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WebM: It's Forgotten but Not Quite Gone

From www.streamingmedia.com - December 22, 2012 4:41 AM

With Mozilla considering H.264 and Google refusing to drop it from Chrome, it seems unlikely that WebM will play a significant role in general-purpose streaming going forward. On a positive note, WebM did accomplish two useful functions.

First, it wasn’t until after Google released WebM that MPEG-LA announced that free internet distribution of H.264 video would be royalty-free, and I doubt that would have happened absent the viable alternative that WebM promised. Second, WebM quieted all those annoying Ogg Theora promoters who fervently (and incorrectly) believed that Ogg was the future of HTML5 video. Beyond those two achievements, however, WebM is truly forgotten, though not quite gone.

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Streaming Media East Google Keynote to Show the Future of HTML5

From www.streamingmedia.com - May 10, 2012 3:57 AM

Matt Frost of the Chrome Web Media Platform team will demonstrate how HTML5 can achieve feature parity with Flash.

It's less than one week until Streaming Media East begins, and HTML5 will again be a top topic for the two-day web video conference. Providing the opening-day keynote is Matt Frost, senior business product manager at Google Chrome. We spoke to Frost to get a preview of what attendees will learn during his address. For Frost and his team, building out HTML5 is a major priority.

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HTML 5 Developer's Dilemma - Which Video File Format to Convert and Support

From www.devcurry.com - December 19, 2011 5:15 PM

Until recently, the only way to embed video in web pages was using third-party plugins like Silverlight, Flash and QuickTime. HTML5 has made it easier to include multimedia in your web pages without any plugins, by just using the <video> element. However support for video and audio file formats varies across browsers. HTML5 capable browsers support different video formats.

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