Re: Guess everyone saw this already?
Jeremy Nickurak <[email protected]>
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What's the patent status of VP8? That's the one missing piece of information I'm still looking for about whether or not this can work. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:13, Basil Mohamed Gohar < [email protected]> wrote: > On 05/19/2010 01:55 PM, Steve Kann wrote: > > Google has opened up VP8, and has lined up about 40 > > companies/organizations (including xiph) in a coordinated launch: > > > > http://www.webmproject.org/ > > > > Anyone know where there are quality comparisons between H.264, Theora, > > and VP8? > > > > -SteveK > > > Thank God for this. This is really great news. Thanks for sharing, > because I didn't hear about it yet. I literally am feeling wave of > relief in that there are big players (specifically Google) now > explicitly in the free-as-in-freedom, royalty free codec game. > > I think the battles we've been waging with Theora have really paved the > way for this, because it showed it's feasible to use a > free-as-in-freedom codec for these purposes. > > VP8 samples are still quite rare (I know I haven't seen anything but a > screenshot so far), so I cannot comment on actual quality. I hope the > players in the WebM project aren't going to be hostile to a truly open > spirit, such as continuing to be friendly with Ogg Theora as an > alternative, especially where it's already in wide use. Besides, while > WebM is still being developed, Ogg Theora is right there in browsers now. > > Oh, I'm just giddy! :) > > P.S. Please don't start the "end of Theora" rants, either. Theora was > around when it was less relevant than it is now, and it was doing just > fine. It's a serious codec, and WebM isn't ready yet. We'll need video > support until then. Anybody willing to work with WebM will also likely > be willing to work with Ogg Theora, so chillax! > _______________________________________________ > theora mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora > -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: [email protected] =- _______________________________________________ theora mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora