[CoLoCo] Google releases open source WebM codec

[Ian Santopietro]

I wouldn't worry about flash being a problem for too much longer. Steve Jobs
has voiced personal protest against flash by making it unavailable on iPhone
OS. Last time he made a statement like that was with floppy drives on the
original iMacs, and look how fast those disappeared after that.

So it's really only a matter of time.

On 21 May 2010 11:25, Aaron D. Gerber <gerberad at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> -Simon
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