Extra FutureFellow Michigander [Chris Adamson does a good job of elaborating on the problems Google’s decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of WebM][link] from the perspective of an implementor or creator. The short: It ain’t pretty.
via [@soypunk][via]
[link]: http://www.subfurther.com/blog/2011/01/13/an-encoder-is-not/ “An Encoder Is Not A State Machine”
[via]: http://twitter.com/soypunk “Soypunk on Twitter”
[This is good news][link]. I can’t help but think WebM had something to do with it.
via [Lukas Mathis][lukas]
[link]: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en “MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Not Charge Royalties for Internet Video That Is Free to End Users Through Life of License | Business Wire”
[lukas]: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/08/26/h_264_update/ “Ignore The Code: H.264 Update”