On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram 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. Already going through review, though I wonder if it needs to go through legal as well: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593879 > * Gstreamer plugins - Is it separate? Is anyone looking into that? They're currently separate branches of the usual -base, -good, and -bad GStreamer plugins. They will be merged in the near future, and will probably land in F13 as soon as the merges are done, and releases happen. > * 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 This is dependent on libvpx as well. > * Chromium devel has support for it too. Spot has a repo running that > is widely used and should be updated Same here. > Any grand plans? Should we put up a feature page? I'd expect most of the support to end up in F13 updates, so I'm not sure a feature page really makes sense. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
