Additionally, the TL34HD utilizes H.264 compression, acodec for high definition video that has become an industry standard and which yields three times the recording length than of MPEG4.
The only weapons (if you can call them that) available at the beginning of the game are a scope, a pack of smokes and aCodec (in-ear radio transmitter).
Larry explains that they move Google Video to a common codec format, to prevent frustrating video problems without committing to a proprietary format or a business partnership to do so.