[Athen] Video In HTML5 - a new kid hits the streets

[John Foliot]

For those who have been following (or not following) the whole HTML5 video
codec kerfuffle: Google announced today that they will be open-sourcing
the VP8 codec (which they acquired with their purchase of On2) and Google,
Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft have already announced support for this codec
in upcoming browser releases. No word yet from Cupertino. (as John starts
humming "The cheese stands alone.")

 

More blog posts and related news than you might really need or want, but
this is both an interesting and exciting day for video on the web.  Here's
a few key sites to check out:

 

The WebM project (this is the BIG news here folks)

                http://www.webmproject.org/ 

 

Mozilla/Firefox: 

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/19/open-web-open-video-and-webm/  

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-youtube-and-webm/ 

 

Microsoft/Internet Explorer: 

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/ 

 

Opera: 

http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/19/ 
                http://blog.foolip.org/2010/05/19/vp8-has-landed/
(recommended - JF)

 

Google/Chrome: 

 
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/webm-and-vp8-land-in-chromium.html

 

YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/html5 

 

In-depth technical analysis of VP8:

                http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377 

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