On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/05/google-frees-vp8-codec-for-html5-the-webm-project/ > > "All videos that are 720p or larger, uploaded to YouTube after May 19th, > will be be encoded in WebM." > > So you all already heard the news, Google has released web-m as a > royalty free format under a BSD license style license. They have also > have started using it in YouTube. So if we get things aligned, Fedora > 14 would be able to play YouTube out of the box which is a pretty major > thing not to mention a boost for the open web. > > * Gstreamer plugins - Is it separate? Is anyone looking into that? http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2010/05/19/webm-and-gstreamer/ > * Firefox nightly has support for it. I don't know if Mozilla plans a > release in time or we should look into backporting it and getting > trademark approval Firefox 4, should be out in due time, assuming no delays. > * Chromium devel has support for it too. Spot has a repo running that > is widely used and should be updated > > Any grand plans? Should we put up a feature page? Spot was been working on packing libvpxp. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
