-A de facto standard today for playing videos in a browser is Adobe Flash Player. Because this is a proprietary technology and P2P-Next uses open standards other technologies needed to be explored. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) currently works at a new version of HTML, HTML5, which supports, besides other revolutionary features, audio and video tags. Thus video files can be easily embedded into web pages, just like images, without any browser extensions or plugins. Although HTML5 is still a draft, most modern browsers already implement some of its features including video and audio tags. On this background, non-profit organizations and big corporations have engaged in a codec war. Some of the problems were whether to accept or not proprietary condecs, which codecs should standardly accepted etc.. For instance Microsoft promotes AVC / H.264, a proprietary video codec. Despite of its image quality and its good compression ratio, non-profit organization criticized it for being proprietary and closed standard. As a consequence Ogg containers with Vorbis audio codec and Theora video codec were included into HTML5. Google also stepped into this war and acquired On2 Technologies, for VP8, an open video compression format. They proposed WebM containers with Vorbis audio compression and VP8 video compression. Because Google's proposal is a free open standard it was accepted into HTML5 along with Ogg (Vorbis + Theora). Currently most modern browsers support video tags with Ogg and WebM containers.
+A de facto standard today for playing videos in a browser is Adobe Flash Player. Because this is a proprietary technology and P2P-Next uses open standards, other technologies needed to be explored. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) currently works at a new version of HTML, HTML5, which supports, besides other revolutionary features, audio and video tags. Thus video files can be easily embedded into web pages, just like images, without any browser extensions or plugins. Although HTML5 is still a draft, most modern browsers already implement some of its features including video and audio tags. On this background, non-profit organizations and big corporations have engaged in a codec war. Some of the problems were whether to accept or not proprietary codecs, which codecs should standardly accepted etc.. For instance Microsoft promotes AVC / H.264, a proprietary video codec. Despite of its image quality and its good compression ratio, non-profit organizations criticized it for being proprietary and closed standard. As a consequence Ogg containers with Vorbis audio codec and Theora video codec were included into HTML5. Google also stepped into this war and acquired On2 Technologies, for VP8, an open video compression format. They proposed WebM containers with Vorbis audio compression and VP8 video compression. Because Google's proposal is a free open standard it was accepted into HTML5 along with Ogg (Vorbis + Theora). Currently most modern browsers support video tags with Ogg and WebM containers.