Intel Considers Hardware Acceleration For Google's WebM Format

CWmike writes "Intel is considering hardware-based acceleration for Google's new WebM video file format in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity, an Intel executive said on Thursday. Announced last Wednesday at Google I/O, WebM files will include video streams compressed with the open-source VP8 video codec, which was acquired by Google when it bought On2 Technologies in February. 'Just like we did with other codecs like MPEG2, H.264 and VC1, if VP8 establishes itself in the Smart TV space, we will add it to our [hardware] decoders,' said Wilfred Martis, a general manager at Intel's Digital Home Group."

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Well, that's all folks.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Thank you for playing, H.264. Microsoft, Apple, it was nice having you.

But open, patent free standards have prevailed. I am not stupidly praising google or buying the do no evil crap. I am just saying, in this case they did the right thing.

Google is the ONLY major player around HTML5 that is playing fair, and that is something we have to recognize. Maybe there's some hope for the future ...

Re:Well, that's all folks.

[Lunix Nutcase]

So if Google thought that there were no patent issues why don't they indemnify any of the VP8 users from patent claims? Oh right, that's because they've already licensed the MPEG-LA patent pool so they're already protected.