Google announced availability of new video codec for web - VP8.
Major info is available from - http://www.webmproject.org/
Not going too deep into details:
* source code is available
* youtube transcoding to new video format already started
* Adobe Flash will support this format soon (announced on same Google IO event)
* Latest Opera already has support built-in, Chrome and Firefox - expected to provide new builds starting tonight
I am quite enthusiastic about possibility to implement some acceleration with XMOS chips for this codec.
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