It always takes some time for developers to work their magic and create stuff that end-users can use. I expect there to be a good mix of free & low-price encoders, along with integration into many existing tools.
Its very early days, and the lack of encoders isnt much of a problem at this stage where there arent too many people with suitable browsers either. However it would be good to start experimenting with encoding settings and seeing what sort of filesizes are achieved, so I will try to see if there are any options out there. Meanwhile apparently someone that knows a bit about the tech of video codecs had an initial look at VP8 and was quite concerned about some similarities in certain functions to h.264. This leaves the door open for patent woes for WebM, although it is far too early to tell if that will become an issue at some point. At the very least we should not get too complacent about WebM, its future is not completely assured, but hopefully it will all work out ok. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "stanhirson" <shir...@...> wrote: > I'm getting concerned that although VP8 is open source, it is not accessible > to the unwashed content creators (videomakers) but only to corporations and > developers. At some point there may be some trickle-down, but it won't be > free. > > Stan > > Stan Hirson > http://PinePlainsViews.com > http://hestakaup.com >
