Now that Google Chrome supports Open Video as of somewhere along a version 3 update (hint. if you have the latest version, you got Open Video support), it’s time to make a table of where all of it is.
Here’s the report:
| Browser | Open Video Support | Open Audio Support |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 | — | — |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.5 | Theora | Vorbis |
| Opera 10 | — | — |
| Apple Safari 4 | H.264 | AAC LC |
| Google Chrome 3.x | Theora, H.264 | Vorbis, AAC |
* “—” means the browser does not support any variation of Open Video whatsoever
Well, this is a happy development. Google could have gone and used their recently bought On2 codecs instead of supporting Theora, but they decided to support it anyway. That’s great, and what’s even better is Google is probably still going to use its On2 codecs in the future, hopefully making them open, giving way to like, Theora 2 A.K.A. VP8. Google Chrome even supports H.264 and AAC (I did not test for AAC+ and ++ yet), so that’s pretty cool too.
This also means a joyous ~17% of the browsing population can see Open Video, and 31% have browsers of which the latest version is compatible with some form of Open Video, which makes it far from irrelevant. About 3% of the 17% uses Safari, which doesn’t support Theora, so Theora is already the major codec for Open Video (yatta!).
