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		tvdw on Nov 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player Happy to see that a big site is finally starting to support WebM. I hope that they've chosen to not support h264, because of its proprietary nature?

TopTrix on Nov 9, 2012 | [–]

As the post say, previously they were using Ogg player and now a complete open source player.

thoughtsimple on Nov 9, 2012 | [–]

Does anyone support anything but H.264 on mobile hardware yet?

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