Videos uploaded to the service YouTube, transferred to the new format. Now all videos uploaded to video hosting by automatically encoded into the format WebM.
Videos uploaded to the service YouTube, transferred to the new format. Now all videos uploaded to video hosting by automatically encoded into the format WebM, developed by Google in conjunction with Opera and Mozilla, said in the official blog of YouTube, TSN reports.
At WebM will be transferred the entire archive video YouTube. At the moment, experts encode video sharing 30 percent of commercials, which accounted for 99 percent of all hits on the website, sends tape.
YouTube was transferred to the new format
WebM video codec enables playback movies in browsers that support HTML5, without having to use third-party plug-ins such as Flash Player. WebM support the latest versions of browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
He is a competitor of another popular codec H264. This codec is supported by the browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. Previously, YouTube announced a player tests HTML5, during which users can view videos in WebM, and in H264.
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