MacDailyNews Take: What to be a multi-billionaire or die trying? Get up really early (or never sleep).
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Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep. – Fran Lebowitz
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. – George Allen
I’ll sleep when I’m dead. – Warren Zevon
Spence continues, “VP8 is proprietary video codec, owned by Google and created by On2 Technologies, which forms part of a new larger WebM Project supported by Google, Mozilla, Opera and forty plus other publishers, software and hardware vendors. Google announced it was making VP8 open source on Wednesday, which should enable any HTML5 web browser and any video player to play video, clearly a potential rival to the Apple preferred H.264 codec. In a short reply, the Apple boss, clearly favouring the H.264 codec, simply pointed to a recent blog post by x264 developer Jason Garrett-Glaser headed ‘The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8.’”
Cade Metz reports for The Register, “Yes, Jobs responded with a URL — one that points to a VP8 analysis by a third-year college student named Jason Garrett-Glaser, who works on the open source x264 project, a free software library for encoding video in H.264.”
“After obtaining early access to the VP8 spec and code, Garrett-Glaser says that VP8 is “better compression-wise” than Theora, but he also says that the codec is ‘not ready for primetime.’ Among other things, he calls the spec ‘a mess,’ and he says that as a decoder, VP8 ‘decodes even slower than’” the H.264 decoder provided by the FFmpeg project. FFmpeg, he adds, is slower than other state-of-the art H.264 decoders,” Metz reports. “‘This probably can’t be improved that much,’ he says, referring to VP8 decoding capabilities. Google is unlikely to change the VP8 spec, but it and partners will continue to develop the software itself.”
Metz reports, “Garrett-Glaser also questions whether VP8 could stand up to a patent attack. ‘With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free,’ he says.”
Full article, with copy of Jobs’ email, here.
Garrett-Glaser’s full article — which includes the gem, “But first, a comment on the [VP8] spec itself… AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” — here.
MacDailyNews Take: Google, you’re so transparent we can see right through you; except for that shriveled, black, evil heart that you try to hide behind bullshit corporate slogans and vaporware launch cartoons.
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