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Google I / O that has started today confirmed the news that is rumored in recent months, releasing the source code of VP8 video codec, which was acquired by Google and is a direct competitor to H.264, which is a proprietary codec .
Google has presented, the project Webm , from which they want to build an open video format, using VP8 for video and Vorbis audio. VP8 has been supported in the presentation by Mozilla and Opera, Adobe, which as discussed Bitelia our colleagues, it could be a revenge for what happened Apple in recent weeks between the two companies .
Among others who are supporting H.264 over Microsoft and Apple, which for the time being won this battle, but Adobe, Mozilla and Opera have lodged their support, besides Google, of course-to VP8 is good news. H.264 has a very good video quality, but VP8 does not lag behind and from the community have to support open source projects, for everything that benefits the community during the past week .
H. 264 have been expanding as the video codec Favorites and it is used in 66% of cases, up from Flash that is used in 40% and Ogg Theora is that only 4% use .
Now with the arrival of Webm we have to expect that over time the use of VP8 field will increase and by eating slowly H.264. If you like, you can start using browsers VP8 supports that are available today. Mozilla has presented a nightly build of Firefox with support for V8, which also made .
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