Have you used a huge number of videos encoded in H.264 format in your business website? Are you worried about how you are going to convert those to a format supported by mobile devices like iPad? Well, you can relax. According to a recent research conducted by MeFeedia, as many as 80% of all videos encoded using H.264 codec can be delivered directly to tablet devices like iPad, without requiring any kind of re-encoding. All you will have to do is change the video player from Flash to HTML5. That’s it. Your videos should play just fine now.

What is so special about this?

Well, for one thing, it shows just how universally accepted the H.264 codec family has come to be. The percentage of videos encoded using this format comprised just about 10% of the total number of videos on the Web in the beginning of 2010. Now, it is almost touching the 80% mark, and not even two years have passed since then! (more…)