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Google donating new video codec |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:10 |
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 TechCrunch is reporting a new video format is emerging. Adobe likes Flash video, Apple prefers H.264, but now a new codec is on the scene:
"H.264 is a modern codec, fast and light. It’s great except for one thing. It is owned by the MPEG-LA consortium, which doesn’t charge royalties for its use today, but currently plans to start enforcing royalties in 2015. The royalty threat is the reason Mozilla supports an older open codex called Ogg Theora in Firefox instead of H.264.
But Google is donating a much better codec, called VP8, which it acquired with its purchase of On2 Techchnolgies. The WebM Project is a new container file format for Web video. It includes the VP8 video codec, the open Vorbis audio codec, file extensions and a new mime type. Any video player can adopt it, including Flash. And, in fact, Flash is one of the 40 launch technology partners supporting WebM." (TechCrunch)
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Chrome browser jumps in market share |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:03 |
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 According to metrics company Net Applications, Google's Chrome now ranks number three in the browser market, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox and ahead of Safari. Firefox and Chrome are available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Safari is available for Windows and OS X. So, this is pretty significant news even though the Chrome's share is only 4.4% for all platforms and 6.3% for Linux.
Additionally, Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of Net Applications, believes that Chrome's popularity may even push Linux past the 1% OS market share since it's the basis of Google's Chomium operating system which will come preinstalled on netbooks next year. Chromium is a browser-centric distribution of Linux based around Chrome.
Read more at ITWorld.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 17 December 2009 23:17 |
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ITWorld looks at Firefox 3.5 |
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Written by Jason Wallwork
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Saturday, 04 July 2009 03:47 |
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 Firefox 3.5 has been finally released for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can download it at Mozilla and probably soon from your favorite distribution repository.
Although not a monumental overhaul on the surface from previous 3.0.x versions, Firefox does has some possibly major performance upgrades and a few new features including Private browsing. ITWorld has an excellent and quick two-page overview. |
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