WebM in Maverick?

[Bob Hazard]

VP8 (libvpx) landed in the Chromium daily PPA this morning if anyone
wants to try it

https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa


You can search for videos to play on YouTube with
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=web&webm=1

2010/5/20 Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan at ubuntu.com>:
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:20 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 01:21 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > Can we include WebM the new codec from Google in Maverick? I presume
>> > there would be lots of interest coming for this and integration in the
>> > desktop and the browser would be great. The Firefox, Chromium and
>> > gstreamer (ffmpeg) trunks have landed with code by now. The main benefit
>> > from including this would be Youtube without flash. I really hope we can
>> > land it as soon as we can.
>>
>> FWIW, packages for lucid are here:
>> https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=lucid
>>
>> These are/will be uploaded to Debian soonish too (libvpx is waiting in
>> Debian's NEW queue).
>
> Oh sorry for posting twice I closed evolution halfway through sending
> it :)
> What I meant was can we ship it in the default codec pack with theora,
> FLAC, vorbis...etc? It seems Google picked a BSD style licence for the
> spec http://webmproject.org/license/software/
> Its still in heavy development but I would like if we can get it in
> Maverick as soon as soon as it hits the Debian repo.
>
> --fagan
>
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