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I blame Google for this, too. They should've made Youtube play on WebM by default, with a fallback to Flash in browsers that don't support it. That would've forced the others to adopt WebM.

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Forcing an inferior codec on users for political reasons is unreasonable.

Have you tried watching 720p WebM compared to 720p H264? The difference is jarring.

I watched the Amazing Spiderman trailer[1] in 720p in both formats - using youtube-dl - and I honestly couldn't tell the difference. The webM file is ~16% larger, though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCfTRMyjGU

Well, Google even decided to bundle Flash into Chrome, so Flash is far from just being a "fallback" solution to them.

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