[Foundation-l] Google open sources VP8 -> WebM

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> WebM is a new open source video codec; That's interesting
> with a BSD-ish license; Ok, that's amazing
> Google did it; That's huge.
>
> The question to this esteemed community is thus:
> Shall we start using it? :-)

Careful about rushing in too quickly to the bleeding edge.

Right now the decoder has what is possibly an exploitable security
vulnerability... which isn't yet fixed because the encoder produces
invalid files that depend on the bad behaviour.

All this will get worked out, but it takes a little time... the
release deadline was an external imposition based on the google event
and doesn't really reflect a degree of maturity.

There are also problems with the Google patent release and a couple of
other bits that need to get worked out.

But absolutely, get to testing it and report findings.