Re: [playogg-discuss] What's the consensus here on the Google/On2 purchase?

[Dara Adib]

sull wrote:
> They should maintain the name 'Ogg' for any new 'open' video codec
> that they release.

I agree. If Google developed a free format using the Ogg container,
free formats would be more publicized. Google has a tendency to brand
everything they purchase as Google XYZ, though.

IIRC, Google's representative on W3C removed the references to formats
for video in the draft HTML5 video specifications. Is a new free format
going to come out of VP7 that would obsolete Theora and get adopted by
Firefox and Chrome? Despite having Chrome, Google supports Mozilla, so
if Google is developing a codec based on VP7 for use in Chrome, it
would only make sense to be for a free format that Firefox could also
implement.

I'd rather not count on this happening, but I hope if Google does create
a free format+codec, it doesn't come at the expense of Theora going to
waste.

Dara