Simon Willison’s Weblog

24th March 2010 - Link Blog

Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5. Everything a web developer needs to know about video containers, video codecs, adio containers, audio codecs, h.264, theora, vorbis, licensing, encoding, batch encoding and the html5 video element.

Posted 24th March 2010 at 12:50 am

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