#“Google VP8 Video and current Phones. What’s the story?”
Quick one on VP8. i'm thrilled Google have done this since the whole MPEG LA thing hanging over h.264 was worryin a lot of people.
But.
A lot of PC video cards and more importantly, smartphones, now have h.264 hardware decoders so they can play the video without melting the main CPU.
Are those decoders hardwired to the h.264 algorithms or will they also be able to handle VP8?
If they can't handle VP8, has Google made an entire generation of Android phonesobsoleteovernight?