The WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative enables the web community to further support the WebM Project. Google, Matroska and the Xiph.Org Foundation make the various components of WebM openly available on royalty-free terms. By joining the CCL, member organizations likewise agree to license patents they may have that are essential to WebM technologies to other members of the CCL.
Read more »MPEG LA's attack on VP8 video highlights need for software patent abolition
MPEG LA is blatantly trying to claim a monopoly on online video. The patent system is failing for software, and initiatives to “fix” the system are not working. A clear exclusion of software ideas from patentability is the only workable solution. VP8 is an attempt to free the software industry and all software developers from this patent troll.
Read more »Google's Go has been called to go into GCC 4.6
Last year one of the many projects introduced by Google was the Go programming language. Do you remember? It's reached a state of being a production-ready language, at least within Google's confines, but this project hasn't received as much attention and interest by the Linux and open-source communities as some of their other work such as VP8 and their new container format.
Read more »FFmpeg's VP8 Decoder Blasts Google's Decoder
The ffvp8 library is this new VP8 decoder created by three FFmpeg developers and after a few weeks of work it's already complete enough to be bit-exact with that of Google's libvpx, while it's much faster than the official decoder.
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Google Engineer Calls Upon The Open Source Community for VP8 Codec Optimization
Google engineer John Koleszar asked the open source community for help optimizing the VP8 codec for the WebM project, Google's open source project for watching video online. In soliciting help, Koleszar gave a sort of State of the Codec Address regarding VP8, it's functionality and the headway he and his fellow programmers have made since the WebM announcement at Google I/O 2010.
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As Promised, Google Delivers GPL Compatibility and GNU/Linux Starts Embedding VP8/WebM Support
Why the next version of your Web browser, media player or GNU/Linux distribution will probably contain VP8/WebM code; Apple and MPEG-LA continue to be the main barriers to VP8/WebM adoption
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Who’s Supporting WebM on Linux?
A couple weeks ago, Google, along with a number of other groups, famously advanced the WebM codec as a supported video format for HTML5-enabled browsers, in an attempt to finally put forward a standard that all parties involved can agree on. How far has the Linux community come since then in implementing support for the new codec? Here's a look.
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Mozilla Says It’s Totally Fine to Ship VP8/WebM, or They Wouldn’t Ship It
Mozilla is not afraid of MPEG-LA and it will calmly support Google's new codec; perhaps so should everyone else
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Google to Make WebM GPL Compatible — Claim
Software patents FUD withstanding, the status of WebM as a Free/open source project is being actively addressed
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Mozilla and Opera call for Google open codec in HTML5 spec
One week after Google open sourced its $124.6m VP8 video codec, Mozilla and Opera have called for its inclusion in the still-gestating HTML5 specification. As it stands, the HTML5 spec does not specify a video codec. Browser makers are free to use any codec they like, and the big names are split between the patent-backed H.264 and the open source Ogg Theora.
Read more »VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate supports WebM / VP8
The VideoLAN Project developers have issued a release candidate for version 1.1 of their popular VLC Media Player, adding support for the WebM / VP8 video format, extensions and a number of new codecs
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First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared
VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself.
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WebM applauded but doubts persist
Google's open sourcing of the VP8 codec as part of the WebM project has been applauded by companies and organisations around the world, but doubts persist about the code, the licence and patents
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EU: NoSoftwarePatents and FFII Respond to Google’s VP8 Announcement
Initial announcement, interpretation, and comments about the good news from Google
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Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8
From today, users will be able to download and install free software to play and encode the new WebM format. WebM is based on the Matroska container format -- replacing Ogg -- and the VP8 video codec which replaces Theora. Crucially, the Vorbis audio codec is part of the new WebM specification.
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