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Sonist · 03-26-2010, 04:50 PM

CBS is testing H.264, which is NOT part of the HTML5 standard.

H.264 is a proprietary standard, from the MPEG-LA consortium, which as of 2014 will start imposing royalty and license requirements. Apple is a patent holder in the MPEG-LA consortium.

For what it's worth, the new Flash Player also supports H.264.

03-26-2010, 04:50 PM	#3
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	CBS is testing H.264, which is NOT part of the HTML5 standard. H.264 is a proprietary standard, from the MPEG-LA consortium, which as of 2014 will start imposing royalty and license requirements. Apple is a patent holder in the MPEG-LA consortium. For what it's worth, the new Flash Player also supports H.264.