80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM 163
An anonymous reader writes "OSNews has an update on the WebM project from a presentation given by Google's John Luther and Matt Frost at the Streaming Media West conference. OSNews writes, 'Earlier this year, Google finally did what many of us hoped it would do: release the VP8 codec as open source. It became part of the WebM project, which combines VP8 video with Vorbis audio in a Matroshka container. The product manager for the WebM project, John Luther, gave an update on the status of the project (PDF) — and it's doing great.'"
Not 80% of ALL youtube (Score:1, Informative)
80% of HTML5 Beta videos are served as WebM. Not 80% of all youtube, duh.
Re:Not 80% of ALL youtube (Score:4, Informative)
Wrong, 80% of videos are available as WebM. Most of the html5 beta videos are served as h264, because very few people have WebM support.
Re:WebM versus H.264 (Score:3, Informative)
Hundreds of millions of Asians would like to disagree with that characterization, you ignorant hick.
Lucky for you, they're Buddhists who honor the precept of doing no harm to others, or they'd probably kick your ass.
Re:"Available in WebM" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"Available in WebM" (Score:4, Informative)
With Chrome 7.0.517.44 (latest at the time of writing), I get WebM. Looks pretty good at 720p!
Re:WebM versus H.264 (Score:5, Informative)
Back in actual, as opposed to perceived, reality On2 has been avoiding patent problems for well over a decade. This was made by a company that did nothing but video codecs, if they didn't know what they were doing in regards to patents, they wouldn't have survived.
Here's a better and less ranty writeup if you want to look into the arguments: http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=420 [conecta.it]
Re:"Available in WebM" (Score:3, Informative)
Fail. Chrome already supports h.264.
Copy paste from google owned youtube:
* Firefox 4 (WebM, Beta available here)
* Google Chrome (WebM and h.264)
* Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here)
* Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (h.264, Beta available here)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)
Re:WebM versus H.264 (Score:3, Informative)
Apparently you don't understand that there are/were already 10x as many iPhones on the market before Android started to take off, but also that iPhones sold more units than Android last quarter. So I wouldn't say google is *owning*. They are far far behind, and they are falling even further behind. That said, #2 in smart phones is still a nice place to be.
Android was outselling iPhone worldwide last quarter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/8125725/Google-Android-becomes-second-most-popular-smartphone-operating-system.html [telegraph.co.uk] From the article:
Re:WebM versus H.264 (Score:3, Informative)