Thu, 2010-05-20 01:03
http://www.webmproject.org/ WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web.
WebM includes:
* VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license
* Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec
* a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container
Mozilla, Opera and Google are behind WebM, even IE9 will have support if the VP8 codec is installed.
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/05/19/another-follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx
Thu, 2010-05-20 15:01
#1
YouTube is converting all new
YouTube is converting all new videos to this format also.
Fri, 2010-05-21 00:08
#2
Most of the major players are
Most of the major players are behind it apart from, the new bad boy on the block:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/20/apple-steve-jobs-vp8-patent
It would be nice to have Apple get behind this and think about the industry as a whole not just there business.
Fri, 2010-05-21 02:22
#3
It might be open sourced, but
It might be open sourced, but it might be subject to patent and it probably is crappy compared to h264. http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
The real win is to keep pressuring MPEG-LA to open h264 patents.