Yay, its good news, here were my thoughts on it: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/60988
My main question is whether the h264 versions will also be easily available to download from the youtube site, as this will mean quite a change in not just the format, but also youtube's whole tendency to shy away from letting people legitimately download youtube videos. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fantastic. It was only a matter of time. > > On 12 Jun 2007, at 22:25, Enric wrote: > > From iLounge, http://tinyurl.com/2fq3t7 : > > ================= > ...YouTube will soon be encoding videos in the H.264 > streaming-efficient compression format preferred by Apple TV, and that > all new videos submitted to YouTube as of the mid-June launch of the > AppleTV update will be playable by the device. From then until fall, > YouTube will be encoding its entire back-catalog in H.264 format, > adding videos in chunks until everything is accessible to Apple TV > users. Direct links and the on-screen keyboard-based search engine > mentioned in our previous update will bring you to current and old > videos alike.... > ================= > > If available to all, easier to mash-up. > > -- Enric > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
