The essay covers many of the strangely disregarded inadequacies of the HTML5 “video tag” project that I discussed long ago in this post, as well as a few I wasn’t aware of.

Here it is.

I’ve got a post coming with some thoughts on the WebM project, mentioned in there. As a preview, I’ve got their VP8 encoder compiled on my research server and have been extremely impressed with the quality of the output, although haven’t yet dug through the source code enough to figure out how to map ffmpeg flags to some of the really useful features of the codec.

Writing an academic paper, though, and working on the dissertation—priorities are priorities.

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