html5 youtube google chrome

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 25 Jan 2010 03:47:16 Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Vadkan Jozsef <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > What do I need to watch html5 videos on youtube with Google Chrome?
> >
> > Now, it's just loading, and loading the html5 video, but it doesn't
> > starts.
> >
> > Maybe missing codec?
> >
> > Please, if someone has a howto/doc, post it.
> >
> > Thank you!
> 
> As far as I know, you only need a html5 compliant web browser. Firefox
> has some support I think. Always a single google away.
> ...
> Back, only Apple's Safari has full support for HTML5 at the moment.

The way I understood it was that there are 2 video codecs in HTML5 - Ogg 
Theora and H.264. Mozilla will only support the open source Ogg, but Apple 
will only support the closed source H.264.

You Tube currently uses H.264.

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