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With mobile being more important in the long run than desktops, and Android gaining ever more importance over the iPhone, we just need Google adopting their ope
by Entlin 16y ago
With mobile being more important in the long run than desktops, and Android gaining ever more importance over the iPhone, we just need Google adopting their open codecs in both Android hardware and YouTube, and it's game over for h.264.
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- fleitz 16y agoYes, most definitely, I mean who would want to cater to a giant install base of people who you know actually buy software and are willing to pay a premium for UX. Google cant put hardware into most Android devices because they don't make them. Heck, you can barely upgrade your Android software on most carriers/devices. Google should first figure out how to prevent carries/manufactures from installing crapware on their handsets.
- vetinari 16y agoWell, the upcoming generation of mobile chipsets supports VP8. Tegra 2, for example, supports both decoding and encoding of VP8.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI hadn't heard that (and thought I'd been paying attention), so if anyone else was doubting vetinari, here's a link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html Claims decode for Theora, VP8 and Vorbis, as well as encode and videoconference for VP8. Basically every Android tablet at CES was Tegra 2 (I think it's the reference platform for Honeycomb) as well as a few of the high-end phones e.g. Motorola Atrix