I think we should support the VP9 video code. It has recently been added to Chromium [1]. According to the media it will be rolled out to YouTube. It's added to WebM [2]. If we don't support it we'll be stuck in a world where we support 'WebM' but don't play the majority of 'WebM' files in the wild (YouTube). While we wait for Daala to become viable we need to support the best open source, royalty free, video codec we can and it's looking like VP9 will be that.
Bug 833023 [3] was opened for implementing VP9 in Firefox and I think we should proceed. Are there any objections? [1] http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/06/17/google-finishes-defining-its-vp9-video-codec-adds-it-to-chromium-ahead-of-chrome-and-youtube-rollout/ [2] http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/05/vp9-codec-nears-completion.html [3] http://xiph.org/daala/ Chris. -- http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz _______________________________________________ dev-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-media
