Indeed, great news. :) For the record, supporting browsers appears to be Firefox, Opera, Chrome and MSIE9. Current WebM members counting Qualcomm, ARM, TI, NVIDIA, Broadcom etc. suggests hardware support for VP8 is coming in next-gen chipsets.
On May 19, 6:41 pm, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, you beat me to it Casper :-). Good news though, and nice to see > Ogg/Theora get some thanks for working with Google rather than getting > dumped on which seems to happen from most people :-). Open source can > change the rules, let's see if it does. > > On May 19, 9:31 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > All of which only requires that it be wildly, obviously better than > > > 264, in order to justify such a migration, meaning it needs to have > > > profound advantages other than its political correctness among > > > everything-should-be-free advocates who, beyond their politics, don't > > > know anything about digital media. Oh, and not get sued for patent > > > infringement anyways, whether or not it's true, by bottom-feeding > > > lawyers and their idiot juror allies in the infamous west Texas > > > district, who'd love a slice of that Google cash cow. > > > > Not gonna happen. Zero chance. Move on. > > > So it happened. Google releases the VP8 video codec and calls for an > > open-source audio/video stack (VP8 + Vorbis) WebM. All youtube content > > above 720p being converted and support for all major browsers being > > worked on. I'm cheering for the unicorns and refuse to move on. I'd > > like to be able to buy a video camera and not be subject to various > > mutating restrictions a la what Apple excels at coming up with. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
