Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec 501
Several readers noted Google's reported intention to open source the VP8 codec it acquired with On2 last February — as the FSF had urged. "HTML5 has the potential to capture the online video market from Flash by providing an open standard for web video — but only if everyone can agree on a codec. So far Adobe and Microsoft support H.264 because of the video quality, while Mozilla has been backing Ogg Theora because it's open source. Now it looks like Google might be able to end the squabble by making the VP8 codec it bought from On2 Technologies open source and giving everyone what they want: high-quality encoding that also happens to be open. Sure, Chrome and Firefox will support it. But can Google get Safari and IE on board?"
Re:Hurrah! (Score:4, Funny)
We're all very quick to hit Google when they do something wrong.
We appear smarter when we find ways for good news to not be good news.
"Neat! The product I have in my hands right now has a cool new feature!" "Yeah, but that other product you didn't buy because you didn't know about it or it didn't suit your needs had that feature months ago. (Score:5, Insightful)"
Re:ENCODERS IDOTS ! (Score:1, Funny)
umm... what's an iDot?
They might be On2 something here... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More like a battle between IE and Firefox (Score:2, Funny)