Joe, what's the implication? There were rumors in the press of a legal threat to Ogg Theora, which could have an impact on everyone from podcasters to hobby animators, let alone the platform wars. Is this like being given a completely unencumbered format? Or does this announcement only have to do with web delivery?
From: Joseph Apuzzo <[email protected]> > > Google has released the On2 VP8 video codec as open source (royalty free, > BSD-style), while also launching the WebM container format which combines a > VP8 video stream with Vorbis audio. Support for WebM has been enabled on > YouTube's HTML5 beta, and you can download patches against ffmpeg as well > as > DirectShow filters for Windows (Gstreamer plugins are labelled as "coming > soon"). Mac users are out of luck for now; no QuickTime plugins have been > announced yet. Update: The WebM blog is now open - and the list of partners > is pretty decent already. It includes ARM, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and many > others. Update II: VP8 will be baked into Flash. Update III: The Opera labs > version with WebM support has been released too, for Linux, Mac, and > Windows. > > -- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com
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