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HTML5 finally a video standard!

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:34 pm
by Num3
After some years of boxing over the video standard for the <video> html5 tag, all major players have come to an agreement!

WEBM!

It's a VP8 video codec + Vorbis Audio in a Matroska based container.
100% free and open source.

Google bought the VP8 codec last February and made it opensource :)


http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/google-webm-html5/

Re: HTML5 finally a video standard!

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:17 pm
by milan1612
I suggest reading this article before getting too excited about VP8...
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377