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When serving video, Flash can act as a container for any type of video, as such it can serve VP8/VP9 just fine. There is no technical barrier here. As for VP9
by gillianseed 14y ago
When serving video, Flash can act as a container for any type of video, as such it can serve VP8/VP9 just fine. There is no technical barrier here.
As for VP9 being a 'non-starter', nonsense. The reason Google is creating their own in-house codec is obvious, 'online' video will be used in an ever-increasing number of services in the future, services which Google wants to provide. As such Google wants their own codec so that they don't have to licence from someone else.
When you record video in your Google Glass or play/record in <insert Google product/service here>, it will use Google's own VPx codec.
- taligent 14y agoI am well aware that Flash can act as a container. But that container by default will have H.265 since Adobe is already a licensee. So why would anybody not use it ? And Google Glass is vapourware and YouTube/Chrome supports H.264 so not buying the whole Google will put its weight behind VP9 argument. We heard it before with VP8.