Google provides a plug-in for Internet Explorer 9 WebM

In the war of codecs on the net, each trying to place his pawns. Last month, Microsoft has unveiled a plug-in for the Chrome browser that allows you to play videos in H.264. Google responded with a plug-in for Internet Explorer WebM 9.





H.264 or WebM? Web browser developers must make a choice. On the one hand, Microsoft and Apple, who remain faithful to the historical H.264 video codec. The other, Google, Mozilla and Opera, which turned to the WebM developed by Google itself.

In this race, Google seems to have an edge because the company controls YouTube, a key element of the battle of Internet video. The company also said the Mountain View wants to promote its video codec WebM because the alternative, H.264, is not free, and raises concerns of law. Which, incidentally, could also arrive at WebM.

With this in mind, Google has said that his Web browser, Chrome, will soon bear the videos encoded in H.264. In the process, Microsoft has responded by unveiling a plug-in for Chrome that can bypass this problem. And so it is quite logical that Google has launched a plug-in for Internet Explorer WebM 9. The game may well last until one of the codecs wins. (EP)