Bye Bye H.264!

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/19/2010 09:25 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:

[snip]

>>> See:
>>> >>  http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=543273659-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5
>>> >>
>>> >>  and:
>>> >>  http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=543273661-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5
>>> >>
>>> >>  Talk about timely mail.....this right after your post.;)
>>> >>
>>> >>  Fred
>>> >>
>>>        
>> >
>> >  Yes, I know!
>> >
>> >  This can't be anything more than a big WIN for Linux.  Because the
>> >  apps in the Google Web Store will run not just in Chrome but pretty
>> >  much almost any HTML5 capable web browser.  That means they're
>> >  "perfectly cross-platform", it doesn't matter what OS you are using
>> >  its the browser that matters.
>>
>>      

Correct! For once, Linux can't loose out! ;)

>> >  The WebM Project is a huge WIN for the HTML5 standard.  It keep HTML5
>> >  open.  If a royalty based codec were the only one supported for web
>> >  video then it would create a situation where you'd have sites that
>> >  could deliver video without Flash, and those sites that have no choice
>> >  but to use Flash and some different codec because they can't afford
>> >  the MPEG-LA royalty fees.  In other words, there would be a class
>> >  system on the Internet separating sites that could afford the codec
>> >  and those that can't.  Now, that whole argument is moot.  I bet the
>> >  MPEG-LA consortium is steaming mad, because this move will cut deeply
>> >  into how much they were potentially going to rake in from H.264
>> >  royalty fees.  They gotta be stewing in their own juices right now.
>>      
Good, because they should be!
> Now all we need is to convert all those flash based edugames/edumaterial
> and we are SET! Oh wait...how much animation does HTML5 support?
>
>    

'Not sure. The other thing is to keep an eye on MickySoft to make sure 
they don't
make some non-open mods to it.....wouldn't be the first time they've 
pulled crap
like that.

Fred