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Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #25 –
Quote from: cpchan on
I grant you that it is free for use  for some purposes at present, but this is the MPEGLA's "bait and switch" to get it firmly entrenched in the industry and profit later on.
Possible - but MPEG-2 has been more entrenched for several years (all DVDs, almost all SD digital broadcasts, some HD digital broadcasts, HDV, etc) and while the patent owners certainly make nice profits, I don't hear people screaming that MPEG-2 on DVDs is evil and we should all use something else.

Cheers,
David.

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #26 –
Just a thought: as a content provider, I'd already be providing H.264 in flash (and also not in flash) to lots of different devices, from iPhones to HDTVs.

The point where I'm going to stop delivering it via flash is a few years away at least. The point where I'm going to stop using H.264 completely is many years away.

Having to deal with another codec, and one that may be less efficient, is a headache I can do without. Unless it helps me reach more users, forget it. The other side of this Chicken-and-egg deal is that unless content providers force users to upgrade to watch the content, most users won't bother - except of course Firefox and Chrome users get updates without asking.

If a content provider is going to go through the hassle and expense of supporting a new codec, it'll be to HEVC one day. That's what all these discussions forget - H.264 itself has a shelf life.

Cheers,
David.

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #27 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
If a content provider is going to go through the hassle and expense of supporting a new codec, it'll be to HEVC one day. That's what all these discussions forget - H.264 itself has a shelf life.


Following the recent comments, this

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High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is a proposed video compression standard, a successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), currently under joint development by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). MPEG and VCEG have established a Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) to develop the proposed HEVC standard.


doesn't qualify as open enough.

To qualify as "open" according to the recent meaning, development and control of the standard should be under control of one single entitiy (e. g. Microsoft, Google, etc.), that owns some associated patents, but itself does not charge any royalties for them and promises the latter forever. That's about the main, significant, here recently proposed difference, when you take into account that open source implementations are nothing special in a world where they are available for all contenders.

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #29 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
The point where I'm going to stop delivering it via flash is a few years away at least. The point where I'm going to stop using H.264 completely is many years away.


FWIW, Adobe has announced plans to include WebM in flash as well.  (Though at the pace they move you may have long since abandoned flash by then  ).

From what I've seen, many sites are quite aggressive in dropping support for older versions of the flash client (intentionally or not).  So the codec choice may be even more of a non-issue even for people still using flash in the not-too-distant future.

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #31 –
Fresh WebM VP8, Ogg Theora, x264 SSIM benchmark:

One pass:





Two pass:





[quote author=Source: http://webscaws.x10.mx/?p=100 link=msg=0 date=]Conclusion

For comparisons between vpxenc and x264 baseline the conclusions from the previous article remain true “Although comparisons in quality are always somewhat subjective these benchmarks do show VP8 video encoded by vpxenc can be very competitive in encoding speed to quality ratio with x264 ‘baseline’ at the higher quality settings in both one pass and two pass modes. With faster encoding settings x264 ‘baseline’ clearly preforms increasingly better than vpxenc.”

However the tests in this article do show a more substantial gap in quality between x264 ‘high’ and the best quality vpxenc can currently achieve.[/quote]

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Reply #32 –
romor: Do you actually understand this graphs? isn't SSIM scale from 0 to 1 (what would be dump SSIM?)? Is it correct to call SSIM quality, ect? What's up with this vpx 1 thread vs 4 threads - in the same sentence with h.264 profiles? What is the purpose of measuring baseline profile at all?

All: Any cool command lines to test Bali with all the 'quality based' encoding scenarios? Do we have and OSX compile of vpxenc?

questions, questions 
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Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #33 –
did you check quoted link source?

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #34 –
Quote from: romor on
did you check quoted link source?

about what exactly?
edit: more questions added to previous post.
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Reply #35 –
Google spins fast:

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all new videos uploaded to YouTube are now transcoded into WebM...
...we’re also working to transcode our entire video catalog to WebM...So far we’ve already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos into WebM

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In keeping with our goal of making videos universally accessible, we will continue to support H.264 as an important codec for video on YouTube


src: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/04...now-served.html

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #37 –
While you guys are separating the real wheat from the chaff, I am feeling good about the prospects of something Matroska-like being encouraged into existence.  I truly enjoy and like the Matroska container format.  Since WebM is a lot like Matroska and is somewhat cross-compatible, it makes me happy.  It would be nice if Matroska got the full support it deserves.
Be a false negative of yourself!

Google removes H.264 from its browser/system

Reply #38 –
Quote from: Nystagmus on
While you guys are separating the real wheat from the chaff, I am feeling good about the prospects of something Matroska-like being encouraged into existence.  I truly enjoy and like the Matroska container format.  Since WebM is a lot like Matroska and is somewhat cross-compatible, it makes me happy.  It would be nice if Matroska got the full support it deserves.


To quote myself... (I couldn't find the edit post button)

I wanted to add, that although I typically like WebM videos for Matroska-like features, and although I like supporting Xiph.org projects such as OGG containers and Vorbis audio,... I am NOT so crazy about VP8 video codec.  It seems like MPEG4 is reasonable enough and I find a lot more video editors that support MPEG4 and other similar variants than VP6, VP7, VP8.  AVIdeMux can do some, but not always.  And yes, I'm a wierdo who edits video downloads, hahaha.

Peace.
Be a false negative of yourself!
 
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