And h.264 is probably over 20 times more complex to decode than the older codec. Times 30 you're at 600. And nobody is putting exact seek into browser players because it's not going to work for HD video which multiplies the CPU usage again.
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The 8 second video can be completely decoded into memory easily. It's the codec is irrelevant at that point.
That 8 second video takes 300MB of memory to completely decode into RAM. Do you seriously think it's acceptable for a browser to eat 300MB of RAM for every video you might play or embed into a webpage?
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Where do you draw the line? Are we decoding 80 second long 480p videos into 3GB of RAM? Stop and think about the nonsense you're asking the browser to do for a second.
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I'm not playing a bunch of videos at the same time. I'm playing one video, in one tab. If I was playing multiple videos, then it could just unload the ones it doesn't need. Or only do it when I start scrubbing.
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