QUOTE(blue penguin @ Oct 15 2013, 14:27)

Actually I hope for the success WebM as it's pattent free (read "software cancer free"). But then again, video formats are a mess already (try compiling mencoder or ffmpeg from source to understand) and WebM is not helping much in cleaning this mess.
I strongly agree. I am a big fan of open source myself, but I embrace h.264 as it is the best option I know
of. There are open liberaries for dealing with the encoding([
www.videolan.org]
example),
and from what I have seen h.264 can encode for most scenarios, where as WebM seems highly specialized.
Just my thoughts :D