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No, it's H.263. As far as I know, Youtube never used VP6. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132933 for some
by DarkShikari 17y ago
No, it's H.263. As far as I know, Youtube never used VP6. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132933 for some possible reasons why.
- blasdel 17y agoYeah, at least that has multiple independent implementations. All the On2 stuff just has the one, especially since they only ever released new incompatible codecs instead of improving their older products. Funnily enough that applies just as much to Theora (née VP3), which right now is a only an open standard in theory, not IETF-level reality. There's a few forks of the original On2 code and a transliteration of the decoder to Java for applets (Cortado). I guess people have been working on writing a new DSP decoder, but the whole thing feels like an even worse recapitulation of the ODF lie.
- DarkShikari 17y agoThis is IMO the core problem with proprietary-based "standards": even if the formats are opened, people rarely make independent implementations of them and bugs often persist for years before being found.