Codecs may not be on the radar for the average video producer, but they are necessary for presenting video. Google opted for exclusive use of WebM on
Google Chrome last Tuesday, which makes the new codec a solid competitor to the widely used H.264. Whether you encode in H.264 or WebM, it will soon determine which web browser keeps your video playable. That alone doesn't sound too bad, but a large portion of your viewers will miss out unless you encode your video twice. While WebM is said to offer more in creativity, the larger struggle for video producers is to cater to both codecs, thus increasing workload and requiring more storage.
With time and usage, we will see which codec is used more widely, afterall, both H.264 and WebM join an already long list of codecs that have graced the pull down menus of video editing software.
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This is another format war
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