Google's web video ambitions bump into hard reality
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#2It seems odd that Google would expend effort to make web video patent-free while at the same time pushing for closed-source DRM in HTML5.
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#3The idea of producing new codecs every 18 months seems to fly in the face of the idea of getting broad hardware support.
Re: Google's web video ambitions bump into hard reality
#4The idea of producing new codecs every 18 months seems to fly in the face of the idea of getting broad hardware support.
Not if the new versions preserve compatibility. But it's true that the technology with the longer view, with fewer major changes, might prevail on that basis alone.
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#5There is an odd contrast between this article and the announcement in January of broad support for VP9 from hardware manufacturers:
As Google announced today, however, virtually all major hardware vendors will soon support VP9 natively in their products and allow Google’s YouTube to stream HD content up to 4K directly to computers, TVs and mobile devices.
These new hardware partners include ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.[1]
I wonder if the VP9 situation changed for the worse since January, or if the article is simply misleading. It's hard to tell as the quotes in the article are mostly anectodal.
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/02/googles-vp9-video-codec-get...
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#6If the test of a technology/codec is its ability to transport pornography; I'd say this is being successfully adopted via webm.
http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan
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#7Not a single word about daala: too bad.
https://gigaom.com/2013/10/15/monty-montgomery-joins-mozilla...
Re: Google's web video ambitions bump into hard reality
#8It seems odd that Google would expend effort to make web video patent-free while at the same time pushing for closed-source DRM in HTML5.
Patent-free video is good for the web, and makes it more likely to get broad support. So good for Google.
DRM in HTML5 means that you don't need Flash/Silverlight to play Netflix, etc. Which means that you can support video more easily. So good for Google.
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#9I wonder what it's Weissman score is :)
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#10I'd say, it is more of a bandwidth problem not a compression problem, web video is not as widespread as it could have been because people don't have the bandwidth to stream it, not because google failed to compress 4k video.