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/
- d.
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