jernstjernst

>[…] slightly higher quality video
At the same bitrate, maybe (if you can see it on a web video)… That being said, if you don’t want to automatically favour the webm video maybe your could add :

1) An option in the settings that says “Favour webm over mp4 when both are available” (with an explanation of the pros and cons) ; I would personnaly prefer this box to be checked by default, but it’s your project

OR

2) Change the short tag parser to take into account the order in which the user specified the streams.

>[…] has wider browser support than webm
If you take http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp statistics into account for exampls:

6.2% of IE9+ (mp4 only)
43.7% of Chrome (webm and mp4)
4% Safari (mp4 only)
———————————
~53.9% mp4 coverage

43.7% of Chrome (webm and mp4)
32.8% Firefox (webm only)
2.2% Opera (webm only)
———————————
~78.7% webm coverage
(real average numbers are a little bit more in favour to IE but not so much as to reverse the argument)

> I would also imagine that most Ubuntu users who plan on watching
> video

Making chromium work with mp4 requires installing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra on Ubuntu.

Thanks for your reply by the way and all the best!