More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change - Chromium Blog HTML5 Codec Support New Browser War Or Google Edict? Google announced it will cease supporting H.264 - one of the major codecs for the HTML5 video platform.
Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies," a Chromium blog post stated.
User must install a codec to watch video. Once codec is installed, message pops up warning of Malware. Internet user clicks on Ford link which leads to a video. Here's a video explaining more about the attack:
It uses a video "codec," which is software that compresses the digital video. The question is how much, and that depends on how closely you can match the video compression settings on your own software to the YouTube codec.
