Newteevee.com is reporting that Google will open source the VP8 codec. Official annoucement is expected at next months Google I/O Developer's Conference. If true this is much bigger news than the TheorARM funding I mentioned the other day, as VP8 is a much more modern video codec. My guess is that H.264 is still going to be the primary video codec of the big players going forward, but hopefully VP8 can be a fallback codec supported by all the browsers so the little guys can escape the licensing costs of H.264 (which are small enough to be no matter for large media companies, but way too big for me.) Thanks Google.
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- jim 4-13-2010 3:00 pm