Now if only Safari 4 was any good on Windows. Safari for OS X is actually my favorite browser (until Chrome works out more of the bugs) but it's abysmal without unsupported 3rd party plugins that rely on a hack that doesn't work on Windows. Then again, I think the more stable Chrome on Windows would beat Safari with add-ons anyway.
Oh well, any progress made against Flash anywhere is a good thing in my book.
I don't know if it's intended behavior, but whenever i search for anything, one of my cpu cores pegs to 100%, and then i end up back at the original O3D demo page.
In June Adobe and NVIDIA finally announced GPU acceleration for flash. June 2009 and they are just getting around to GPU acceleration? Apparently deeply rooted standards don't have to innovate at the same pace?
However, Chrome hasn't licensed h.264 so the top link doesn't work in Chrome. I'm thinking YouTube must have switched the codec for that demo but I could be wrong. I did test the first link in Chrome on both Windows and OS X and neither of them will play the h.264 files in the .mp4 wrapper.
Someone needs to step in and swing out a standard. Otherwise, we're going to be in the IE5 era again with different models for different browsers. In that case, we all lose.
Agreed. The problem is that h.264 is a fantastic codec (as long as you're careful with your black levels) and none of the open standards can match it yet. We'll get there.
using H264 for videos forces users to use certain browsers. I don't care how good the codec is, I want to make sure that I can see the video in any OS using any browser at any time.
I dunno about better... Theora makes some mighty fine video but everything I've read suggests it's far too resource hungry. If they could get decoding to be a bit less intensive then I might agree.
chrisWhite
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Oh well, any progress made against Flash anywhere is a good thing in my book.
well apparently youtube is down for maintenance.
I don't know if it's intended behavior, but whenever i search for anything, one of my cpu cores pegs to 100%, and then i end up back at the original O3D demo page.
It annoys me so much that they won't pick some sort of open video standard for HTML5 and say that's the standard, live with it.
It annoys me so much that they won't pick some sort of open video standard for HTML5 and say that's the standard, live with it.
On topic though that HTML5 link to the O3D video seems to work fine in Chrome for me.
Chrome and Safari both use the same rendering engine.
Besides, Theora is already better than H264.