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21st August 2007 - Link Blog

H.264 support coming to the Flash player. It looks like this is a response to the higher video quality offered by Silverlight. I wonder if YouTube knew about this when they started transcoding their videos to H.264 for the Apple TV and iPhone.

Posted 21st August 2007 at 8:28 am

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