Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW WEBM OVERLORDS:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/50239.html

and more officially,

Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/2010/05/20/

It's worth bearing in mind that Monty created Vorbis, as used for audio for WebM, but Theora was donated from On2's VP3 so there may be less sense of ownership. Plus their basic mission is royalty-free, open-source friendly media so this is a big thing for them.

They seem to be hinting that they can let Google do the publicity and get back into their core competency of R&D for future formats that will be substantially better than encumbered alternatives.

Apple's HTML5 implementation uses Quicktime, so supports any format for which you have a Quicktime plug-in. I have no trouble, for instance, watching Ogg Theora video on HTML5 sites in Safari on my Mac.

I'd expect that Perian will add VP8 support for Mac, since they already have a couple other codecs from the VP family. Perian is a third party collection of codecs for Quicktime.