Facebook Upgrades Video Encoding
Sometime last weekend it appears that Facebook upgraded the encoding of their video service from FLV files to H.264 with AAC for audio. So what does this mean? Well in simple terms Facebook now has better quality video. For those not up to date on the latest video specifications (I wasn’t when we were tipped off about this upgrade), check out the following description of H.264 provided by Adobe Labs:
H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 (ISO/IEC 14496-10).
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