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woohoo! t.f.f.t

We knew html 5 consume low resource (so it's not a surprise)...that's why Apple is not using Flash.

Apple owns part of the H.264 patents which also may tell why Apple do not like FLV.

Nokia and Apple were both pretty naughty when they sabotaged plan Theora being THE video codec for HTML5.

Do you think this will spawn something from Adobe? Seeing as they aren't the only boys on the playing field now, and there is a faster, smoother, less resourceful app that can compete with them, does anyone think they'll stop f**kin about now, and come up with a lean, mean and trimmed flash player ready to compete again?

There won't be a chosen format for HTML 5 -- they got deadlocked, all parties are committed to their positions, and none of them are really bothered by the current codec-agnostic situation. So it'll stay as it is.*

But freely available DSP implementations of Theora could lead to it being used as a de facto baseline, which would be cool. (Alternatively, h.264 will become the de facto baseline, everyone using firefox will have to use plugins to allow system codec support via VLC/mplayer/gstreamer, and when the current royalty-free licensing expires (in 2015 IIRC), everyone will have to get their h.264 decoders from patent-unfriendly places... and it'll still be better than the currently prevalent h.264/flash.)


*The one way it might be resolved is if Google drops a royalty-free license for VP8 as a baseline codec. But I'm not sure even this would do it, since VP8 isn't running on 5 million DSPs in phones, set-top boxes, etc., either.

I think google holds the key to this situation, seeing that they have control over YouTube. Thankfully, they're the lesser evil of the three mentioned.

Then again, true evil may not be the most obvious...