Mozilla blog: Every video on YouTube will be transcoded into WebM. They have about 1.2 million videos available today and will be working through their back catalog over time. But they have committed to supporting everything... http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Good questions, I haven't had the time to look deeper into how they > are going to deal with the fact that YouTube has so much content in > different formats already. And of course, the correct link to the > project website is > http://www.webmproject.org/ > > I'll take a closer look at the project next week, maybe a good chance > to get the HTML5 video playback working in OL. > > Cheers, > Raju > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:09 AM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2010-05-19, at 16:05, Raju Bitter wrote: >> >>> The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video >>> format for the web that is freely available to everyone. The WebM >>> launch is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty >>> other publishers, software and hardware vendors >>> >>> http://www.webmprojet.org/ >> >> webmprojeCt.org >> >> So, as hoped, Google has open-sourced vp8. I think what will be _really_ >> interesting is if they will use this as a lever over Apple (and MS). Will >> they drop H.264 from u-toob? Or do they have so much excess disk and CPU >> that they can afford to host all of u-toob in a _third_ encoding? >
