<p>Viva theora <br>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 12, 2010 7:09 PM, "Basil Mohamed Gohar" <<a href="mailto:abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org">abu_hurayrah@hidayahonline.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On 04/12/2010 07:10 PM, Tom Sparks wrote:
> "Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, ...</font></p>I will reserve celebration for an official announcement from Google.<br>
Meanwhile, I'd like to point out to anyone that might be concerned about<br>
the future of Theora, or just wondering if there's any point to it, that<br>
Theora has a long future ahead of still, given its installed base, its<br>
history and known behaviour, and not the least important, its<br>
low-complexity nature and ease of processing & decoding (in addition to<br>
encoding).<br>
<br>
I think it is unlikely for Google to drop support of Ogg Theora video,<br>
at least in the short term, from Chrome, and I am fairly certain that<br>
Mozilla will likely retain Ogg Theora support in its engine as well. If<br>
this happens to be the case, then it will take some time for VP8 to<br>
reach the market (it has a negligible share, if any, at the moment) and<br>
how it behaves needs to be studied before many will use it. However, if<br>
it does prove to be a superior codec, then *everyone wins*.<br>
<br>
I am cautiously hopeful that this news turns out to be authentic.<br>
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