VP8 (libvpx) landed in the Chromium daily PPA this morning if anyone wants to try it
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa You can search for videos to play on YouTube with http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=web&webm=1 2010/5/20 Shane Fagan <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:20 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 01:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: >> > Hey all, >> > >> > Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume >> > there would be lots of interest coming for this and integration in the >> > desktop and the browser would be great. The Firefox, Chromium and >> > gstreamer (ffmpeg) trunks have landed with code by now. The main benefit >> > from including this would be Youtube without flash. I really hope we can >> > land it as soon as we can. >> >> FWIW, packages for lucid are here: >> https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=lucid >> >> These are/will be uploaded to Debian soonish too (libvpx is waiting in >> Debian's NEW queue). > > Oh sorry for posting twice I closed evolution halfway through sending > it :) > What I meant was can we ship it in the default codec pack with theora, > FLAC, vorbis...etc? It seems Google picked a BSD style licence for the > spec http://webmproject.org/license/software/ > Its still in heavy development but I would like if we can get it in > Maverick as soon as soon as it hits the Debian repo. > > --fagan > > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
