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Chrome drops H.264 (yay!)

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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

Written by Odin Omdal Hørthe

January 12th, 2011 at 9:43 am