[Split] Video Section Discussion

[Tomtentp]

Originally Posted by docdtv

About a third of a year ago, I did indeed raise the issue here and offer a detailed rationale here. Note that since that time, the maximum length of single YouTube clips has been increased to fifteen minutes (And you can still catenate them via playlists). Google, the owner of YouTube, has also since then announced the embrace of a royalty-free video codec, which they call WebM. It has Ogg heritage and "All videos uploaded to YouTube with 720p resolution or better will be encoded with WebM."

For many details about WebM from CNet, see:
WebM and Google's Web-video plan (FAQ)

Which adds one more point to the youtube score.
Lacking Flash, the iPhone can only handle webbased video playback through Apps and the YouTube App is already integrated by default.

I don't know about other smartphones in detail but I am pretty sure they all come with YouTube support, being the main video site out there. This conversion would actually widen the accessability due to the ever growing smart phone industry.

+1 YouTube!