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YouTube takes step towards HTML 5 video with WebM uploads

by Kenny Hemphill on 20 April 2011 in News
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Google has announced that all new uploads to YouTube will be transcoded in the WebM format. In a blog post yesterday, YouTube software engineer James Zen explained that ‘We’ve already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos into WebM.’

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YouTube, Vimeo, Blip: make the most of your video host

by Will Head on 6 October 2010 in Video
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If you’re producing video, you’d be nuts not to take advantage of hosting sites, but the one you choose depends on what you want to achieve… Make any kind of video these days and the chances are it will end up online somewhere. Gone are the days when Internet connections and computers ground to a [...]

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YouTube goes mobile with HTML5

by Simon Aughton on 24 August 2010 in News
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Google has made its HTML5-enabled mobile YouTube service available in Europe as part of a series of upgrades the company says will improve the video experience for viewers on the move.

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Keeping an open mind

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 May 2010 in Apple software

Flash, as Steve Jobs is eager to remind us, is clearly not an open standard, despite Adobe’s very public claims to the contrary… The relationship between Apple and Adobe is cooling faster than a mid-May evening in the Cairngorms. And it seems neither party is in the mood to warm things up. Just in case [...]

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