[theora] bad news: IE9 with HTML5+h264

[Christopher Blizzard]

On 3/18/2010 4:56 AM, startx wrote:
> what that means for web developer is that if you have at least to
> consider mobile users, you either go for h.264 or you have to have
> two version of every video (which is not really an option for larger
> projects)
>    

You kind of need many versions of every video anyway.  iPhone, for 
example, only supports baseline so if you want something that's high 
quality you need something for desktops.  That's two encodes to start, 
not to mention support for many different kinds of bitrates...

...it's h.264 turtles all the way down.

--Chris