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Dear God almighty.
(Source: mandaflewaway, via backshootingford)
"Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet video. Thoughtful, detailed, insightful analysis."
— Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet Video - I’d venture to add “thorough” to the list of adjectives for Jason’s piece.
"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.
Update 7/17/10: They did.
Notable for two reasons. First, H.264 hardware decoding will not be available on OS X. Disappointing, but Adobe claims it’s because Apple doesn’t provide the appropriate APIs. Second, and on a better note, while it doesn’t use hardware decoding, it yet provides significant performance improvements:
Going from roughly 450% down to 190% (or a bit over 10% of total CPU utilization across 16 threads) made full-screen Hulu playable on my machine. In the past I always had to run it in a smaller window, but thanks to Flash 10.1 I don’t have to any longer.
Flash Player 10.1 is scheduled for a release in the first half of next year. Bring it on.
Ever wanted to get rid of the scourge of the web that is Adobe Flash, but still retain the ability to view Flash whenever you want?
If you surf with Safari on a Mac, get this plugin. It is software gold. A Safari equivalent to the equally awesome Flashblock for Firefox.
