I do too. Unfortunately, the browsers are battling it out over Ogg Theora and H.264. Why? Because H.264 is patent-encumbered, which would make it illegal in open-source browsers like Firefox. Of course, Apple is the main one pushing for H.264, since it would have the one-two punch of being hardware accelerated on its mobile platforms and getting Mozilla-based browsers out of the way, paving the way for Safari to take more marketshare.
Unfortunately, the browsers are battling it out over Ogg Theora and H.264. Why? Because H.264 is patent-encumbered, which would make it illegal in open-source browsers like Firefox. Of course, Apple is the main one pushing for H.264, since it would have the one-two punch of being hardware accelerated on its mobile platforms and getting Mozilla-based browsers out of the way, paving the way for Safari to take more marketshare.
I don't think you're going to find H.264 going anywhere, anytime soon, but right there on your desktop computer ... :-)
H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10 (Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003.
H.264/AVC is the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and it was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.