H.264 or WebM

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Which video codec do you prefer?

I hadn't even heard of WebM before.
But since it seems to be only for HTML5 videos I'm gonna go with H.264

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H.264

I use downloaded freeware packages to help with splicing together H.264 video from my camera. I use "Avidemux" to separate out the H.264 video streams of the ".mov" files my camera creates and store them in a ".mp4" format instead. I then use a package called "MeGUI" along with "AviSynth" to decode, combine/edit, and re-encode in H.264. It's complicated to learn the software but it works pretty good.

The problem is most video these days is H.264 and converting to a different codec in the editing process always degrades the quality of the video from the original.

I'm amazed that hardly anybody has heard of WebM. There is a format war raging at the moment which is badly hindering the uptake of HTML5 video because only Chrome currently supports both WebM and H.264. Firefox and Opera do not support H.264 and IE does not support WebM.

I'd been using the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 and only recently switched over to Windows 8 Pro. I had no choice as the Preview version rebooted every two hours. To my surprise, W8Pro has h.264 codes built in whereas with the preview I used to use an external MKV player. The W8Pro is also smooth, too. No grains or artifacts. What I would have also liked to have seen from MS was a built-in audio and video converter and a better photo/paint program. Eh, you can't have it all.