H.264 video compression wow! HD movies in a small streaming package - loved it. And just when I start embedding movies compressed with this Flash8+ compatible codec, I find out it isn't royalty free! "It is owned by the MPEG-LA consortium, which doesn’t charge royalties for its use today, but currently plans to start enforcing royalties in 2015"ref
Okay... time to move everyone. Who wouldn't? Capitalize on your dev team developing a knock-out codec in exhaustive ways, but royalties on a compression method that you've already allowed the public to rely on? What??!? Not going to work.
Okay, so what's next for embedding videos then?
Will need to look into
1. Browser compatibility; HTML5 is around the corner too (side-note.. time to do the browser upgrade dance again)
2. Competing royalty-free video codecs
3. Friendly for the iPhone (it was a gift ;) )
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So VP8's creators were bought by Google and has been made Open Source (and royalty-free) as part of Google's new Web-M platform. Another Free SDK...
Currently: H.264 vs Ogg Thedora
Upcoming: H.264 vs VP8 vs Ogg Thedora & HTML5 Video vs Flash Video
Okay, dunno if the last one is very exciting to me. Flash video was great for a time, but I think as a video container it is losing to HTML5. Not the death of Flash mind you, but I think it's about the video codec here anyway. At least for my purposes :)
Oh and Browser wars!
Whoa! Hold the Phone! MSIE closes the gap?!?! After how many years?
(at least according to them and a few other benchmarks)
And, interestingly, a bit more info at-a-glance about common subprocesses browsers go through from a MS study:
REF:
blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/11/18/a...
news.downloadatoz.com/ie9-faster-than-fi...
Chrome, Opera, and Safari are javascript eatin' machines I guess! But how will MSIE fare on the other benchmarks. Here is an interesting table that had not tested MSIE9:
Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked
| Category / Test | Overall Winner |
|---|---|
| Startup Times | Opera |
| Memory Usage | Firefox |
| Page Load Times | Firefox |
| HTML | Safari |
| CSS | Safari |
| Tables | Safari |
| JavaScript | Chrome |
| PeaceKeeper | Opera |
| Acid3 | Chrome |
| DOM | Chrome |
| Flash | Opera |
| Java | Opera |
| SilverLight | Firefox / Internet Explorer |
This was posted with Safari 5 which wasn't benchmarked either. Ahh it never ends.
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