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		podperson on Aug 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MPEG claims its new standard H.265 halves video ba... It will be interesting to see what happens with VP8/WebM. Really it looks like Google tried to stymie Apple (which committed itself to H264) first by trying to back Adobe/Flash and then VP8 (and announcing that H264 support would be dropped from Chrome, which AFAIK it hasn't been on any platform). Thus far I don't see VP8 achieving much and Google may just end up sticking with MPEG standards.

taligent on Aug 16, 2012 [–]

Google is a few years too late with VP8.

It would have had an opportunity to take off when H.264 was in its infancy. But now there is simply no use for it.

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