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#6035 closed enhancement (fixed)

Add webm and vp8 support to mediakit

Reported by:	tqh	Owned by:	nobody
Priority:	normal	Milestone:	R1/alpha4
Component:	Audio & Video/Codecs	Version:	R1/Development
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked By:		Blocking:
Platform:	All

Description

Google has been working on a format for the video tag that is not encumbered with patents. See http://www.webmproject.org/

They provide patches for ffmpeg.

Change History (9)

comment:1 by cb88, 14 years ago

WebM support and vp8 have been integrated into ffmpeg 0.6 so those patches are no longer needed. http://ffmpeg.org/ for release news

comment:2 by tangobravo, 14 years ago

Since Stippi recently switched to ffmpeg 0.6, does that mean WebM/VP8 is now supported on Haiku?

comment:3 by stippi, 14 years ago

No, not yet. In FFmpeg 0.6, there is support for the WebM container in the Matroska demuxer, already active. Then there is an optional decoder (and I think encoder, too) which needs libvpx. I've ported libvpx here locally (compiles out of the box, once you have added Haiku support to the build system), but I haven't gotten around to send my patch upstream and also not to integrate libvpx into the FFmpeg plugin. Current versions of FFmpeg contain their own (faster) VP8 decoder. libvpx is quite a bit of code, upgrading FFmpeg to a random SVN version looks somewhat attractive considering that, but on the other hand VP8 support is not really important as long as we have no HTML5 video support in WebPositive anyway. I certainly won't work on any of this for the next year at least... so low hanging fruit for someone who wants to get their hands dirty!