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Android Lacks Ogg Theora/Vorbis HTML5 video

by PeEll 2010.05.28

Although Android is supposed to support HTML5, including the video tag, unfortunately this doesn't mean the Android supports open codecs such as Ogg Theora/Vorbis. This is a huge disappointment because Google has made a commitment to open, non-patent encumbered video. At this point the only option is to wait for .webm and hope that everyone support, implements, and uses it; or you can encode your videos as .H264 .mp4 videos, but that would be supporting patent-encumbered formats.


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