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awesome news from google! vp8 opensourced under the BSD license. It's gonna change video on the web for sure. Read more here:

http://www.osnews.com/story/23322/BR..._it_on_YouTube

good times ahead

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Saw that earlier on the register, that is fantastic news!!!!
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Seems to me they joined forces against the apple politics. Very good news indeed!
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Guys can you elaborate on this a little bit? I've read the blog but didnt quite get how it will benefit N900
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Very good news indeed, and on all fronts.
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Interesting read: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377
I'm curious how this will play out. Is VP8 close enough but different to H.264 to avoid patent claims?

It seems TI is working on VP8 support for OMAP3.
 

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Originally Posted by HellFlyer View Post
Guys can you elaborate on this a little bit? I've read the blog but didnt quite get how it will benefit N900
It's not gonna benefit N900 directly as specific device. But whole web and the way how video content can be distribute. I'm really glad that Flash going to bake this codec in. In addition to dynamic streaming they working on, that will be very powerful stuff. And at least will benefit all devices.
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Guys can you elaborate on this a little bit? I've read the blog but didnt quite get how it will benefit N900
playing web video will not require paying royalties to a competitor
 
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http://www.webmproject.org/users/

Chrome, FF and Opera already support it... MS will probably chime in since there are no royalties (let's just hope it will be in IE9).
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This time, Mozilla isn't shut out like with H.264. Link:
Google, which acquired the VP8 in its acquisition earlier this year of On2 Technologies, is packaging VP8 with the open source audio codec Vorbis under the WebM project, an industry initiative launched Wednesday that's being led by Google, Mozilla, Opera and more than 40 industry partners.
From Mozilla's blog:
3. We will include support for WebM in Firefox. You can get super-early WebM builds of Firefox 4 pre-alpha today. WebM will also be included in Google Chrome and Opera.

4. Every video on YouTube will be transcoded into WebM. They have about 1.2 million videos available today and will be working through their back catalog over time. But they have committed to supporting everything.
Leave it to Google to continue to play both sides of the "closed source" and "open source" fence.
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