On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:34:49 +0800, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:27 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
On 20 May 2010 00:38, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> x264 don't think much of VP8, they think it's just not ready:
> http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
> OTOH, that may not end up mattering.
Greg Maxwell thinks it's only about as much of a car crash as VP3 was
when it was released:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-May/047795.html
"You should have seen what VP3 was like when it was handed over to
Xiph.Org. The software was horribly buggy, slow, and the quality was
fairly poor (at least compared to the current status)."
What it needs, of course, is a plugin for *current* browsers, more
than the Chrome/Chromium dev channel.
In any case - interesting times :-D
- d.
Opera has already made a GStreamer plugin for VP8 and released it in
their
gstreamer git repository, and Firefox already has support integrated into
the trunk.
As it turns out Collabora also made plugins (unknown to us) and this is
what is now in gst-plugins-bad. Still, Opera's matroskademux WebM changes
and parts of our encoder/decoder will come to use.
--
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
