Comments on: 4 out of 5 videos are encoded in H.264 http://gigaom.com/2011/12/19/h264-80-percent-of-videos/ Sun, 19 May 2013 01:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bruce lawson http://gigaom.com/2011/12/19/h264-80-percent-of-videos/#comment-779697 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:47:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=457486#comment-779697 Your article tells only half the story.

Firstly, just because a video is encoded as h.264 doesn’t mean it can be played on an iPad. iPad is capable of playing “H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats” according to http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/.

So unless each h264 video sampled fit that criteria, then it’s not iPad-ready.

Apparently, webM is only 2% of the market. Yet 13 months ago you reported that 80% of YouTube Videos Now Available In WebM (http://gigaom.com/video/80-of-youtube-videos-now-available-in-webm/). So I find it difficult to marry those two sets of statistics up.

]]> By: ... http://gigaom.com/2011/12/19/h264-80-percent-of-videos/#comment-779585 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:21:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=457486#comment-779585 MP4, M4V, MPEG-4, H.264 Video as well as AAC, M4A Audio, have been a video standard for a few years already in the video editing or movie industry for keeping video quality high while making the size and streaming problems low.

]]> By: junk science http://gigaom.com/2011/12/19/h264-80-percent-of-videos/#comment-779429 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:57:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=457486#comment-779429 this is because video is still largely about consumption, not creation. once home users and small businesses start creating more video, they will inevitably discover the patent minefield surrounding h264

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