Make YouTube use open media codecs

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Signatures: 3,287

Goal: 10,000

Status: Active

Author: DanielHendrycks

Started: January 22, 2010

Target: Those that care about the web

Category: Entertainment & Media

Make YouTube use open media codecs

YouTube currently is using MP4 to display their videos in their HTML5 player. I am petitioning this sad fact. The web should be an open place where anyone can provide rich media without going bankrupt. Relying on closed source, expensive codecs like MP4 to play our media is almost as bad as relying on Flash. Please people; support this petition, for the sake of the open web.
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Added by: DanielHendrycks on January 22, 2010, 10:06:42 pm
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This petition implies the usage of Xiph's codecs (Theora and Vorbis).

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