Its good news for open video :)

Silvia did a good post on what will need to happen for "open sourcing" vp8 ... http://blog.gingertech.net/2010/02/20/googles-challenges-of-freeing-vp8/

I hope that it lands in an "ogg" container to be easily compatible with vorbis and the ogg tool-chain, and if google indemnifies any implementations then apple could not cite patent concerns for not supporting it. ( Although I think apples anti html5 ogg theora baseline had little to do with actual patent concerns since they previously licensed shipped the vp3 codec of which theora was based, and h.264 has had a much more contentious litigation history that I outlined at one point: http://tinyurl.com/ylxrzb7

peace, --michael

David Gerard wrote:

So it's rumoured "from multiple sources":

http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/

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