- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:52:05 +1000
2010/5/20 Sir Gallantmon (???????) <ngompa13 at gmail.com>: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 20 May 2010 00:34, Nils Dagsson Moskopp >> <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: >> > James Salsman <jsalsman at talknicer.com> schrieb am Wed, 19 May 2010 >> > 14:58:38 -0700: >> >> >> > Container will be .webm, a modified version of Matroshka. Audio is >> >> > Ogg Vorbis. >> >> > You mean Vorbis. </pedantic> ;) >> >> >> *cough* >> >> x264 don't think much of VP8, they think it's just not ready: >> >> http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377 >> >> OTOH, that may not end up mattering. >> >> >> - d. > > Given that the main reason against Theora was the fact that hardware devices > supported baseline profile H.264 (which looks terrible compared to the other > profiles), I think VP8 may be fine. VP8 already has hardware decoder chip > support, so that isn't an issue. Patents aren't an issue, since Google has > dealt with that. Apologies, but how has Google dealt with patents? They make the ones they bought from On2 available for free - which is exactly the same situation as for Theora. They don't indemnify anyone using WebM. However, I do appreciate that for any commercial entity having to chose between the patent risk on Theora and the one on WebM, it is an easy choice, because Google would join such a courtcase for WebM and their massive financial status just doesn't compare to Xiph's. ;-) > Nevertheless, Firefox already has support for it in the trunk, Opera > released a labs build that adds a GStreamer plugin for WebM to their builds, > and Chrome trunk added support for it. > Adobe announced support for VP8 in a future version of Flash, and probably > Silverlight will have it too. Whether they'll include complete WebM support > is unknown, though. I think with the weight that Google have in the market, they may well be able to push WebM through - in particular with the help of Adobe (ironically). We may yet see a solution to the baseline codec and it will be a free codec, yay! Cheers, Silvia.
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