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Intel Considers Hardware Acceleration For Google's WebM Format

Posted by timothy on from the those-guys-will-do-anything-for-money dept.

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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  1. Re:Sounding good over all by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 0, Troll

    VP8 doesn't suck

    Then you've apparently never used it or you actually fell for that shitty comparison from their website which was nothing but misleading marketing material.