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80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now In WebM
An anonymous reader writes "OSNews has an update on the WebM project from a presentation given by Google's John Luther and Matt Frost at the Streaming Media West conference. OSNews writes, 'Earlier this year, Google finally did what many of us hoped it would do: release the VP8 codec as open source. It became part of the WebM project, which combines VP8 video with Vorbis audio in a Matroshka container. The product manager for the WebM project, John Luther, gave an update on the status of the project (PDF) — and it's doing great.'"
It's all good and all, but at most WebM will now be an alternative for the big guy H.264 which is already widely supported by computers, mobile phones, consoles, tv's... and is the superior format. WebM provides too little too late.
Personally I think making so many different formats will create the same hell that was around the year 2000 with WMV, RealPlayer and so on. We've finally established a single and simple way to embed video in to websites and that is flash with H.264. It has been working great.
For an analogy.. like in Buddhism, maybe we should all tolerate each other. Buddhism has four genders - man, woman, ladyboy and hermafrodites. Just the same way we can have H.264, WebM, Theora and hell, WMV. Lets let everyone be like they are, use them what they want and love each other. Remember karmas law - say something bad about other formats and it will come back to you in the future. Lets support each other and improve technology together.