[CoLoCo] Google releases open source WebM codec

[Aaron D. Gerber]

For sure, I'm stoked!! Basing web-standards around H.264 is BS.

However, it's not without its share of nay-saying..
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/05/20/steve_jobs_says_no_to_googles_vp8_webm_codec.html

Aaron-

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Simon Engelbert <engelbert.simon at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wednesday Google released a new open source WebM video codec that will
> hopefully become the standard for HTML5 video. Great news for the open
> source community! We should start to see this codec being utilized in
> Firefox, Chrome/Chromium (Chromium already has it in its Daily PPA
> build...but be careful it is not stable), Opera and hopefully some other
> Linux supported browsers. It also sounds like Google has been working with
> the GStreamer and PulseAudio teams to ensure it works well with Linux!
>
> Personally I long for the day I don't have to worry about getting Flash to
> work on my 64-bit (or even 32-bit) installs. Obviously I don't think it is
> going to happen overnight and HTML5 may never completely take over
> Flash.....but this is a great start!
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/webm-ubuntu.html
>
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> -Simon
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