I’m so glad we have native support and the codecs improving all the time, hopefully one day we can get rid of adverts that use flash to redirect you anywhere they like and flash LSO cookies and have code that’s ratified by responsible browser developers that is as cross platform as can be and make life easier for developers by only needing to support one open format.

Clarification WHY USE THEORA + VORBIS:

1.Theora should be used instead of patent an royalties constrained Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash sucks very much, because:

a)for the playback of same quality video material it requires muuuuch more CPU power than any other decoder (Theora for that matter or Xvid);
b)it crashes everything on its way (no matter what browser or operating system you use- I tried them all, really);

2.Flash is closed source- speaks for itself and partially explained the above. Three words: security, quality, spyware;

3.The profile used by google sucks all the way and any h.264/AVC takes way too much CPU power to compress and achieve the same (or as in case of youtube worse) quality for a small web video than any other encoder (vide Theora).

4. Theres no point to use any AVC for the web as you have to pay royalties from 2010 to mpegLA even if they havn’t written a single line of code. The same goes for open source Xvid- they havn’t written a single line of code but claim its their patent. (Xvid is so good that some companies even tried to steal it an conceal the code, they failed miserably).

5.In order to achive good results in Theora you need two passes, but even with one pass its GREAT. For compressing DVDs I use sth. like this: QPel+ Extreme Quality Profile+ Trellis Search Quantization+ Some Image Noise Reduction+ Gauss Scaler. I also use Vorbis for Audio (Q=3). To my surprise it produced sharper image than Xvid without Qpel (rest settings the same).