The WebRTC IETF working group will be making a codec selection decision (VP8 vs H.264) today -- the meeting is open to participation via XMPP chat (Google Talk appears to work) and there will also be a live audio stream from the in-person room.
(WebRTC is the peer-to-peer media connection infrastructure for HTML5 which will in future enable things like Google Hangout video chats using only open standards. This has obvious potential benefits to us, so we may have an interest in how this turns out.)
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/agenda?item=agenda-88-rtcweb.html
Meeting will start in about 15 minutes (21:00 UTC) and will run about two hours.
-- brion
I missed most of the meeting relay as I had to run out for some errands, but little birdies on IRC tell me that the outcome was deadlocked. There will continue to be video codec drama on the WebRTC working group mailing lists, and no guarantee of video interoperability between browsers from different vendors.
And of course <audio> and <video> tags also still have no mandatory minimum codec support, so status quo reigns supreme in HTML5 video with incompatible browser implementations. Awesome!
-- brion
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
The WebRTC IETF working group will be making a codec selection decision (VP8 vs H.264) today -- the meeting is open to participation via XMPP chat (Google Talk appears to work) and there will also be a live audio stream from the in-person room.
(WebRTC is the peer-to-peer media connection infrastructure for HTML5 which will in future enable things like Google Hangout video chats using only open standards. This has obvious potential benefits to us, so we may have an interest in how this turns out.)
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/agenda?item=agenda-88-rtcweb.html
Meeting will start in about 15 minutes (21:00 UTC) and will run about two hours.
-- brion
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