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La Free Software Foundation (FSF) published a open letter asking Google release the codec video VP8 that you acquired together with the purchase of the company On2 Technologies completed yesterday to "free Flash web and H.264 proprietary": |
"Dear Google,
With the purchase of On2 you now have both the largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec (VP8). Just think what you could achieve by releasing VP8 under an irrevocable royalty-free license and publish it for users on YouTube. You could end the web's reliance on patent-protected video formats and proprietary software (Flash). "
El VP8 It was introduced in 2008 as a real alternative to H.264 that at the same time requires fewer processing cycles to decode and can use up to half the data than H.264 to deliver the same video quality. VP8 is also designed to support multiple cores and could also be ported to systems ARM.
This codec would not be alien to Flash's requirements either: in 2004 its previous version VP6 was selected by Macromedia as the video codec for Flash 8.
Will Google listen to the FSF and do the right thing?
Seen in | Techworld