Now this is interesting

"NewTeeVee reports that Mountain View will open source On2's VP8 codec at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco in mid-May. The publication also says that Google will roll the codec into its Chrome browser, and that Mozilla will do the same with Firefox."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04..._codec_in_may/

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Sorry for topic, but i thought that this is related to this.