Archive for the ‘Free Software’ tag
Chrome drops H.264 (yay!)
So this means “my” way of doing web streaming of conferences with Theora (and in future, maybe VP8, but right now VP8 support == Theora support) is a good fit. I hope so much that VP8 wins the war. It´s obviously very important for the free software community as, well, developers can´t be expected to pay royalities for their users.
I know readers of this blog already know the counless evils of software patents, so I won´t go in to that. Suffice to say, Google is doing a great thing for the openess of the web here. You take that, evil Apple!
I learned about it in this great article, Google Hands Open Video a Huge Win