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Comment by IgorPartola | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what Adobe will have to say about this. As a Firefox user, I am out of luck with no h264 support. It's interesting that the only two browsers that don't support Theora are Safari and IE, which makes the choice of h264 as the standard a bit odd to me.

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I'm expecting a post from their paid Flash commenter (I'm sorely tempted to say professional troll, given some of his recent posts) jon dowdell saying something mocking about Ogg, then adding that HTML 5 is purely for minority browsers, and Adobe is fully focused on helping businesses and advertisers connect rich internet content with their customers in innovative and engaging ways.

(Translation: Flash will always rule, we're betting the company against Apple-Google-Mozilla, and the rest of the internet may hate us, but it won't matter because IE and Windows will dominate forever)

Meanwhile, those of us using "minority" browsers and Macs will do to Flash exactly what we did to Real.

Not classy, but then, that's what pseudonyms are for.... ;-)

(I was sort of relieved to see YouTube take the beta off... brings the conversation down from the clouds and into reality.)

I would bet that Youtube already has h264 encoded videos, which means no re-encoding to support this.

They do. The HQ setting on Youtube uses H264 baseline profile (notice how they introduced this around the time of the iPhone launch), and the HD setting uses H264 as well.

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