Use of Ogg formats in HTML5

Motivation

• The potential for universal adoption of Theora and Vorbis, no matter the computer or the user, would ease "codec hell" by eliminating an unnecessary amount of codecs required to view and publish videos to a select few.
• Browser plugins needed to accommodate the many different codecs would then become a thing of the past:
• * Browsers could handle the playback of Theora and Vorbis and allow the user to customize the manner in which that was done.
• * Bugs and exploits in obsolete versions of those plugins would affect the user less, as they are phased out; the loss of multiple attack vectors would happen once browser plugins were ultimately removed.
• * The HTML5-conformant player, not having to be coded for compatibility with different browsers, could make bugs and exploits easier to find during browser development, and any exploits found would only be able to target that one browser.
• Free software encoders would compete with rival proprietary encoders, increasing encoder quality through competition.
• Embedding of multimedia by the use of clear and straightforward video and audio elements would require less effort than mastering the object element or learning ActionScript as required by Adobe Flash.