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by othermaciej 5365 days ago
When I visit, I get served H264 video in an MPEG-4 container via the <video> tag. QuickTime fallback is offered for browsers that don't support MP4 natively.
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shoota 5365 days ago
The version of Chrome I'm using must have removed H264 support. Quicktime as a fallback is rather disappointing as Flash seems like it has a much higher install base and smaller disk space footprint.
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simonbrown 5365 days ago
See http://labs.divx.com/html5/ to see if your browser supports H264 demo. Both Chrome and IE9 do for me and I am still asked to install QuickTime.
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shoota 5364 days ago
In fact my chrome is working with MP4 video and this appears just to be Apple pushing quicktime on to Chrome users.
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othermaciej 5364 days ago
It could be a broken test for support, or UA sniffing or something. I'll file a bug against the site.
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