The first slightly interesting thing to emerge from Google’s I/O 2010 conference has been revealed – it’s to fully open-source the On2 VP8 video codec, which Google acquired the ownership of when it bought On2 in mid-2009.
Which means we now all have a free-to-use video codec to power the next generation of HTML5 video content, which will be packaged up under the WebM “open media” banner. Here’s a low-res image from the Google I/O 2010 YouTube feed that does this story no justice whatsoever:
This doesn’t mean much for Android at the moment, but we’ve got an hour to kill before dinnertime so thought we might as well mention it.


MarkG
/ May 19, 2010Opera 10.5 with WebM(VP8) available for download. You can also browse YouTube with the new codec;
http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/19/
http://www.webmproject.org/users/