[Malic]

If YouTube goes WebM, it's hard to imagine that Apple won't be forced to cave in on this one. And it's hard to imagine that Google wouldn't re-encode the whole of YouTube (geez, the CPU cycles!!!) But I would expect legacy support of H.264 by YouTube for some years to come. So even if Apple does switch their preference, it could be quite some time.

[mbrubeck]

Over a million YouTube videos are available in VP8/HTML5 today, and that number will continue to increase.

http://www.webmproject.org/users/

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/

[tvon]

? I'm not seeing any mention of VP8 there.

[mbrubeck]

Sorry, that wasn't the best URL. Updated it to one with more info.