Bye Bye H.264!

[Michael Haney]

Remember when Google bought the company On2 Technologies.  That
company has a video codec called VP8, an H.264 competitor which is
actually better for streaming HD quality video.  Me and many others
suspected that Google was going to make VP8 open-source and push it as
an alternative to H.264 and Ogg Theora as the standard of choice for
HTML5 Video.

We were right!

Introducing Googe, Mozilla, and Opera's WebM Project http://www.webmproject.org/

Its a royalty-free open video codec based on VP8 for video and Ogg
Vorbis for audio.  Google plans to push it heavily as the standard of
choice for HTML5 Video and it will be supported by Youtube.

The announcement on TechCrunch ...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/19/webm-google-h-264/

This has big implications for Linux where Flash tends to perform
poorly.  Since WebM is a free open standard then it could be
incorporated into Totem, VLC, Mplayer, and any number of video players
on Linux, Mac and Windows.  It can be incorporated into Apple's iPad,
iPhone and the iPods that support video.  This is huge news.

-- 
Michael "TheZorch" Haney
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking
of morality by religion." ~ Arthur C. Clarke
"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and
politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place
for it in the endeavor of science. " ~ Carl Sagan

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