> Has anyone else noticed this?
Nope, quite the opposite.
> WebM was already a second class citizen on YouTube (and the web in
general), > but the situation seems to worsen as time goes on.
We must be looking at different webs.
> Is Google giving up?
Hardly.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/03/2349203/youtube-goes-4k-and-vp9-at-ces
"These hardware vendors include major names like ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG,
Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung,
Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba."
And then there's the upcoming Daala, targeting a generation beyond HEVC and
VP9: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml
So things are looking pretty good in the free codec world.
