'Today, hardware support is widely available for H.264 both on PCs and phones. Hachamovitch does note in the May 18 post that Microsoft still considers H.264 to be the superior video codec choice. In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.'

'When it comes to video and HTML5, we’re all in. This just in: Microsoft is confirming it will support VP8 via a just-published blog post from Hachamovitch. I've asked Microsoft whether the company is, indeed, going to add VP8 support to IE9, but have yet to hear back. (A related aside: My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott did a must-read post that rebutted the notion that H.264 codecs might end up a costly proposition for consumers, as opposed to the open-sourced VP8.) But the implication was that IE 9 would include built-in support for H.264 only.

In an update to his comments, Hachamovitch said IE 9 users will, of course, be free to download and install other codecs. (Google officials said WebM will work well on even lower-power devices, including netbooks and handhelds, according to Engadget.) WebM is going to be available under a royalty-free BSD open-source license.Īt the end of April, Microsoft IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch created a bit of controversy when he blogged that IE 9 would support the H.264 codec only. At the I/O confab, Google unveiled the WebM container, which includes VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio support. But given IE 9 is unlikely to ship until 2011, according to various sources of mine, the Redmondians have some time to figure it out.)Īt the Google I/O conference on May 19, Mozilla and Opera announced with much fanfare their plans to support VP8 codec, which Google acquired when it bought On2 Technology. (I don't know exactly when or how Microsoft is going to support VP8 with Internet Explorer. See below for Microsoft's latest codec-support statement. Update: It seems like the tipsters were on the money.

Microsoft is going to do the same, as well, according to my tipsters. Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren't the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers.

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