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buurmas	2010-05-19 , 21:10
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This time, Mozilla isn't shut out like with H.264. Link:

Google, which acquired the VP8 in its acquisition earlier this year of On2 Technologies, is packaging VP8 with the open source audio codec Vorbis under the WebM project, an industry initiative launched Wednesday that's being led by Google, Mozilla, Opera and more than 40 industry partners.

From Mozilla's blog:

3. We will include support for WebM in Firefox. You can get super-early WebM builds of Firefox 4 pre-alpha today. WebM will also be included in Google Chrome and Opera.

4. Every video on YouTube will be transcoded into WebM. They have about 1.2 million videos available today and will be working through their back catalog over time. But they have committed to supporting everything.

Leave it to Google to continue to play both sides of the "closed source" and "open source" fence.

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