Despite Recent Chrome Announcement, H.264 Won't Be Dropped From YouTube

Charles Arthur of The Guardian has finally shed some light on Chrome’s recent announcement that they would be dropping H.264, and all he had to do was ask Google’s PR team. Read on to find out what Arthur asked, what Google told him and what the implications are.

Arthur’s questions primarily had to do with the effect that Chrome’s decision to drop H.264 would have on YouTube. A lot of speculators thought that, in their mission to “enable open innovation” and direct the web towards a codec-free system, the Google-owned YouTube would also be dropping H.264.