A presumably related development: Microsoft Edge dev team has announced they're working on native WebM VP9/Opus support:
http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/webmcontainer/ http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/vp9videocodec/ http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/opusaudiocodec/ Ball's in your court, Apple. ;) -- brion On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > This may be of interest: > > > http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-media-formats/ > > Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling > resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open > video codec. > > Cisco and Mozilla had already started working together, combining ideas > from Cisco's Thor codec and the Mozilla-sponsored Xiph's Daala codec, but > getting them together with Google's VPx team is a big happy occasion... > getting Intel and Microsoft on board means probably hardware support on > x86_64 chips and support in Windows and MS Edge, while Amazon and Netflix > pump a lot of video volume out both to browsers and devices, so should help > push adoption by ARM SoC makers. > > In other words, AWESOME SAUCE! > > The only missing major player looks to be Apple... so we'll see if they > eventually join on or if they double down on HEVC and we keep having to > play JavaScript tricks. :P > > > I'm subscribing to their mailing list for updates; it may be worth looking > into if we can partner in or at least follow along and support stuff on our > end. > > -- brion >
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