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Presumably this is to avoid the need for Flash for video streaming.

I believe the two main advantages of Flash over the Video tag are that Flash can encrypt, and flash can do adaptive rate streaming - and adaptive rate streaming is also going through the standards process at the moment.




An MPEG standard for adaptive streaming (DASH) has just been ratified:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Arti... http://dashpg.com/?page_id=25

Firefox and Chrome both seem to be working on implementing it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702122 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109652




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