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Originally Posted by eric12341
all html5 videos in mango so far seem to launch into Zune via hardware decode,I actually like this better so far than using the apps because the playback seems to be more HW accelerated and because I can find the adult videos on dailymotion which the app currently doesn't support. I haven't tried dailymotion videos in desktop IE9 yet but it says that it works on the html5 enable page.
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Ok, that make sense because IE9 by default only supports H264 for HTML5 video, Theora and WebM are only supported via plugins on the Desktop IE9. If it launches zune then you are going off the codecs the device supports. I would think Theora is supported by hardware decode via the 1st gen snapdragon because it existed at the time. WebM on the other hand is a new codec which came out AFTER. So there would be no way 1st gen snapdragon to have hardware decode, it would require software decode on M$ part..And since M$ will not give out native access, Google can't make a plugin for it either.
To not, I am not trying to defend Google or blame M$, but in this particular case, Google is not doing it on purpose...I mean they make money off youtube ads..so if they could do it they would...