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I "heard" that the reason why this cannot be a standard is that the hardware vendors are already making silicon out of the currently published bitstream spec of
by vu3rdd 16y ago
I "heard" that the reason why this cannot be a standard is that the hardware vendors are already making silicon out of the currently published bitstream spec of VP8 and any discussion and a later change in the bitstream can upset such plans. Hardware support is crucial for the success of any multimedia format.
- robin_reala 16y ago3 of the last 4 posts on the WebM blog ( http://blog.webmproject.org/ http://blog.webmproject.org/ ) have been about upcoming hardware support. Sooner rather than later I’m sure. Course, these seem to be mostly discrete parts. For real success WebM needs to make it into SOCs.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThey can easily get a tame standards body to bless an existing implementation without any changes if they want. This is basically ECMA's business model. The question is, if there are already multiple interoperable hardware and software implementations, including a couple of independently produced open source ones then what benefit does a further English language description bring? If I ruled the world then two independent open source implementations plus a spec would be required for "standards". If I had to give up one of those, it would be the the spec that went first.