Bye Bye H.264!

[Conrad Knauer]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

nitpick: WebM is not a "codec" and doesn't use "Ogg Vorbis"; Ogg is a
container format.  WebM is defined as:

- a container format based on 'a subset of Matroska'
- the Vorbis codec for audio
- the VP8 codec for video

Very exciting though; HTML5 video for everyone, here we come! :)

CK