<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, David Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 20 May 2010 00:34, Nils Dagsson Moskopp<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net">nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> James Salsman <<a href="mailto:jsalsman@talknicer.com">jsalsman@talknicer.com</a>> schrieb am Wed, 19 May 2010<br>
> 14:58:38 -0700:<br>
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>> > Container will be .webm, a modified version of Matroshka. Audio is<br>
>> > Ogg Vorbis.<br>
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> You mean Vorbis. </pedantic> ;)<br>
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</div>*cough*<br>
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x264 don't think much of VP8, they think it's just not ready:<br>
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<a href="http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377" target="_blank">http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377</a><br>
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OTOH, that may not end up mattering.<br>
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- d.<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Given that the main reason against Theora was the fact that hardware devices supported baseline profile H.264 (which looks terrible compared to the other profiles), I think VP8 may be fine. VP8 already has hardware decoder chip support, so that isn't an issue. Patents aren't an issue, since Google has dealt with that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, Firefox already has support for it in the trunk, Opera released a labs build that adds a GStreamer plugin for WebM to their builds, and Chrome trunk added support for it.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Adobe announced support for VP8 in a future version of Flash, and probably Silverlight will have it too. Whether they'll include complete WebM support is unknown, though.</div>