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You can submit, comment, and rate antique videos at: http://lab.wgbh.org.roadshow . Thank you again for contacting the WGBH Lab. We will return your message shortly. On May 29, 2010, at 10:10 AM, videoblogging@yahoogroups.com wrote: > VideoBlogging > Messages In This Digest (2 Messages) > 1a. > Re: WebM Project From: Rupert Howe > 1b. > Re: WebM Project From: Jay dedman > View All Topics | Create New Topic > Messages > 1a. > Re: WebM Project > Posted by: "Rupert Howe" rup...@twittervlog.tv aitia > Sat May 29, 2010 4:13 am (PDT) > > > Just catching up after week away, reading the various breakdowns & > speculations. > > So WebM only matches h.264 baseline profile for quality, and is > bulkier and slower and uses more power? But surely the point is that > this is just the beginning of an open development process? > > And isn't the most important thing that we now have something open > that rivals h.264, which weakens MPEG-LA's position when they come to > review the patent fees in 5 years. Even if it's not quite as good. > The market cares more about cost than quality (VHS vs Betamax, etc). > > I'm sure that Google must have seen that alone as worth the $120m they > spent on ON2. And then smart of them to realise that the best hope > for VP8 to survive was to open source it. Who's going to choose > another proprietary codec instead of h.264, especially if it's not as > good? > > Speculations about the patents seem pointless - a patent pool will no > doubt emerge and the risks will have been reviewed ad nauseam by > Google. Similarities with h264 will have been obvious to them and are > surely arguable by prior art, as noted by the x264 developer in his > breakdown & updates & the comments. Google will deal with challenges > the same way they've dealt with people like Viacom. > > Depressing to see Steve's notes about WebM CPU use though. Had hoped > video might be lighter & greener in all its post-Flash incarnations. > > Re full page video: Odd how few cool tools have been made with HTML5 > video so far. It'll be interesting to see what the HTML5 version of > Navigaya.com looks like, which they say is coming soon. Recently > launched as Flash only - nice full page video/web TV, social media & > browsing interface - a bit like the interfaces Elbows has mused about > a few times over the years here. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > On 22 May 2010, at 14:22, elbowsofdeath wrote: > > > At this stage by biggest problem is how much CPU it uses to > > playback, quality seems ok to me but CPU use is not. > > > > > As for the whole page as a canvas for videos, I guess there is quite > > a lot of potential there, either through multiple videos or > > different parts of the page playing back different periods of time > > from a single video file. > > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> > > wrote: > > > Interesting to read, but I would make note of the source. anyone > > > invested in H264 will obviously do what they can to lay down fear. > > > Remember when Google bought Youtube and there was all the fear of > > > copyright lawsuits? Google has the lawyers to figure it out. > > > > > > The more important issue to research is how well WebM works. > Hows it > > > look, how smooth is it, how well does it compress and transcode? > If > > > Google gives developers all the resources they need, let's give > > people > > > 3 months before we see some cool expeirments. > > > > > > In my mind, the whole idea is to break out of the idea of "the > video > > > in the player". What if you could use the whole page as a canvas > for > > > your videos? Stan is right that creators need the tools to do > this. > > > > > > As Verdi said, http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/, is a nice free > > tool > > > to transcode to WebM for tests. > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > -- > > > http://ryanishungry.com > > > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > > > 917 371 6790 > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > Back to top > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post > Messages in this topic (17) > 1b. > Re: WebM Project > Posted by: "Jay dedman" jay.ded...@gmail.com kinshasa2000 > Sat May 29, 2010 4:32 am (PDT) > > > > Re full page video: Odd how few cool tools have been made with HTML5 > > video so far. It'll be interesting to see what the HTML5 version > of > > Navigaya.com looks like, which they say is coming soon. Recently > > launched as Flash only - nice full page video/web TV, social media & > > browsing interface - a bit like the interfaces Elbows has mused > about > > a few times over the years here. > > This is the missing link. We need more tools for creators to take > advantage of the promise of HTML5 video. We need dead easy ways to > play with presentation and interactivity. > > Dont forget about proposing workshops at > http://www.openvideoconference.org/proposals/ > I can imagine just a brainstorming session about what these tools > might look like. > > Jay > > Back to top > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post > Messages in this topic (17) > > RECENT ACTIVITY > 1 > New Members > Visit Your Group > Stay on top > of your group > activity with > Yahoo! Toolbar ---------- > > Need traffic? > Drive customers > With search ads > on Yahoo! ---------- > > Yahoo! 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