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? :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
Hoi, Check out my blog <grin> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-wikipedia-related-logo-just-...</grin> Thanks, GerardM
On 19 May 2010 23:18, Kim Bruning kim@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? :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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No, the real question is: Is it _actually_ free?
Read the OVA page about VP8 ( http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/05/google-frees-vp8-codec-for-html5-the-we...). Specifically "What's the catch?". In short, MPEG-LA group claims that their patents cover all modern video codecs.
So, hey, if Google can fight them off - great. Until then... wait and see?
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 14:12, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, Check out my blog <grin>
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-wikipedia-related-logo-just-...
</grin> Thanks, GerardM
On 19 May 2010 23:18, Kim Bruning kim@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? :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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On 19 May 2010 22:21, Jon Davis wiki@konsoletek.com wrote:
No, the real question is: Is it _actually_ free?
Read the OVA page about VP8 ( http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/05/google-frees-vp8-codec-for-html5-the-we...). Specifically "What's the catch?". In short, MPEG-LA group claims that their patents cover all modern video codecs.
So, hey, if Google can fight them off - great. Until then... wait and see?
They claim the same about theora. They've had years to actually show this and have singularly failed to do so.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Kim Bruning kim@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.
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