Hey everyone.<div><br></div><div>If you haven't seen this already, last week was Google I/O the third edition.</div><div>The event page is : <a href="http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/">http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/</a></div>
<div>The youtube channel with the keynotes is : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers">http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers</a></div><div><br></div><div>One of the most interesting things at that conference was the introduction of the WebM codec, which is a combination of On2's VP8 video codec (which is now open sourced) + the Vorbis sound codec with a Matroska (or Matroska derived) container. From what they said, the guys working on the OGG, Theora and Vorbis have jumped in to help on the project, Mozilla and Opera have also stated that they will support this new format, I've heard that Microsoft would also integrate this into IE9 [although it's a bit unclear on the details].</div>
<div>Apple seems to be the only one still resisting to adopt this format, probably because of the fact that they hold some patent rights on H.264.</div><div><br></div><div>I would recommend that we integrate support for this new format into IceCast, maybe also bump the version to 2.4; I'll try to work on this too, since I'd like to setup a video streaming server with this new format.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How does that sound ?</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div>