<http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/on-web-video-support-safari-now-stands-
alone/>

"Indeed, within minutes of the project’s launch here at Google I/O, links 
went up to new versions of Firefox and Opera with built-in support for 
WebM video. Chrome support will be coming in the next beta, due later 
this month. Microsoft says that Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, due to 
arrive as soon as the end of 2010, will support VP8 video playback if a 
user has installed the free codec on their copy of Windows."

Well... this is potentially good news.


-- 
Rick

Rick pulled this Usenet boner:

> <http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/on-web-video-support-safari-now-stands-alone/>
>
> "Indeed, within minutes of the project???s launch here at Google I/O, links 
> went up to new versions of Firefox and Opera with built-in support for 
> WebM video. Chrome support will be coming in the next beta, due later 
> this month. Microsoft says that Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, due to 
> arrive as soon as the end of 2010, will support VP8 video playback if a 
> user has installed the free codec on their copy of Windows."
>
> Well... this is potentially good news.

   Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai says the company has done
   "a thorough legal analysis of VP8�� since acquiring it, and remains
   confident it can release the technology under an open source license
   without infringing on any patents.

-- 
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
		-- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

On May 20, 1:42=A0pm, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstr...@launchmodem.com> wrote:

> =A0 =A0Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai says the company has=
 done
> =A0 =A0"a thorough legal analysis of VP8=B4=B4 since acquiring it, and re=
mains
> =A0 =A0confident it can release the technology under an open source licen=
se
> =A0 =A0without infringing on any patents.


What an idiot.

I would have felt better--and so should you, fool--if Google's VP of
LEGAL had said the same thing.

RL

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> Rick pulled this Usenet boner:
> 
>> <http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/on-web-video-support-safari-now-stands-alone/>
>>
>> "Indeed, within minutes of the project???s launch here at Google I/O, links
>> went up to new versions of Firefox and Opera with built-in support for
>> WebM video. Chrome support will be coming in the next beta, due later
>> this month. Microsoft says that Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, due to
>> arrive as soon as the end of 2010, will support VP8 video playback if a
>> user has installed the free codec on their copy of Windows."
>>
>> Well... this is potentially good news.
> 
>    Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai says the company has done
>    "a thorough legal analysis of VP8´´ since acquiring it, and remains
>    confident it can release the technology under an open source license
>    without infringing on any patents.

I've read somewhat they they began converting YouTube content! :-)

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In article <VaWdnVh4OfC8GmnWnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@supernews.com>,
 Rick <none@mail.invalid> wrote:

> <http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/on-web-video-support-safari-now-stands-
> alone/>
> 
> "Indeed, within minutes of the project’s launch here at Google I/O, links 
> went up to new versions of Firefox and Opera with built-in support for 
> WebM video. Chrome support will be coming in the next beta, due later 
> this month. Microsoft says that Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, due to 
> arrive as soon as the end of 2010, will support VP8 video playback if a 
> user has installed the free codec on their copy of Windows."
> 
> Well... this is potentially good news.

Safari already supports it to the same extent it supports H.264. HTML5 
video playback in Safari uses Quicktime, and so works with any format 
for which the end user has an appropriate Quicktime component installed.

My Safari, for instance, currently can play MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 
3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, 
HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, 
Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture, and Ogg Theora.

-- 
--Tim Smith

In article <ht33n4$hgm$4@news.eternal-september.org>,
 Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote:
> 
>    Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai says the company has done
>    "a thorough legal analysis of VP8�� since acquiring it, and remains
>    confident it can release the technology under an open source license
>    without infringing on any patents.

Microsoft thought the same thing about VC-1, which they announced as a 
patent-free codec. When the dust settled, it turned out that at least 15 
companies had patents covering it.

-- 
--Tim Smith