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Here's what I'm not clear on: why did we scrap the whole Ogg Theora thing in favor of WebM at all? Isn't Ogg actually unencumbered by lawsuit-fodder?
by powrtoch 16y ago
Here's what I'm not clear on: why did we scrap the whole Ogg Theora thing in favor of WebM at all? Isn't Ogg actually unencumbered by lawsuit-fodder?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoAs I understand, Ogg Theora is an odd format (in a way that makes it exceptionally hard to implement in hardware, for instance) that doesn't perform very well.
- mcritz 16y agoOgg (like mp4 or mov) is actually a container format that can have Theora or WebM compressed media inside.
- robin_reala 16y agoWebM is a container format for VP8. Ogg can’t contain WebM but could contain VP8 as well.
- mgw 16y agoTheora is derived from VP3 which, as the name suggests, is a predecessor to VP8 which Google recently renamed to WebM. As such, VP3 is inferior to VP8 (WebM) and a huge step backwards from H.264. One could also say that as long as software patents exist, no codec can ever be unencumbered by lawsuit-fodder.