Google I/O 2010 and Webm
Right now, while I'm typing, but very far from here, the Google I/O 2010 is on it's second day. I don't have the possibility to go, but I watched the two keynotes.
I am damned Excited about all the cool things and innovations that Google presented! The thing I love most, is the webm-project that they launched together with Firefox, Opera and many other big companies.
The project launched a Video-format, that shall become standard for HTML5. It consists of the VP8-Videocodec, that Google got when buying On2 and which they now made Opensource, the OGG Vorbis-soundcodec (that is OSS anyway) and the container-format .mkv.
Youtube is at the moment converting all it's videos into this format, starting with the highres-ones, so you(or We) can enjoy Youtube without a (buggy) flashplayer (Yay!). It will take some time, but a lot of videos are available already.
Yout can test the whole thing, by using one of the compatible browsers. Mozilla offers a nightly-build of Firefox, Opera offers a lab-version, the Chromium Project offers snapshots, Google Chrome will include it in the near future and probably the next preview for IE9 will include it.
You have to join the Youtube HTML5-beta to use it. When You then search for Videos, just add &webm=1 to the end of the URL (for example http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailer&aq=f&webm=1)
I think this may help a lot freeing the web from flash and proprietary video standards (h.264).
They also presented some absolutely amazing new features for Android 2.2 Froyo. How they used the presentation to leapfrog Apple, you can read in this blog-posting.
Android 2.2 brings great advantages and speed improvement.
You can now watch the day-one keynote on Youtube:
Right now, while I'm typing, but very far from here, the Google I/O 2010 is on it's second day. I don't have the possibility to go, but I watched the two keynotes.
I am damned Excited about all the cool things and innovations that Google presented! The thing I love most, is the webm-project that they launched together with Firefox, Opera and many other big companies.
The project launched a Video-format, that shall become standard for HTML5. It consists of the VP8-Videocodec, that Google got when buying On2 and which they now made Opensource, the OGG Vorbis-soundcodec (that is OSS anyway) and the container-format .mkv.
Youtube is at the moment converting all it's videos into this format, starting with the highres-ones, so you(or We) can enjoy Youtube without a (buggy) flashplayer (Yay!). It will take some time, but a lot of videos are available already.
Yout can test the whole thing, by using one of the compatible browsers. Mozilla offers a nightly-build of Firefox, Opera offers a lab-version, the Chromium Project offers snapshots, Google Chrome will include it in the near future and probably the next preview for IE9 will include it.
You have to join the Youtube HTML5-beta to use it. When You then search for Videos, just add &webm=1 to the end of the URL (for example http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailer&aq=f&webm=1)
I think this may help a lot freeing the web from flash and proprietary video standards (h.264).
They also presented some absolutely amazing new features for Android 2.2 Froyo. How they used the presentation to leapfrog Apple, you can read in this blog-posting.
Android 2.2 brings great advantages and speed improvement.
You can now watch the day-one keynote on Youtube: