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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by Rubenb on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @06:19PM (#2094053)
Read [this](http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377). VP8 is basically a slightly worse version of baseline H.264.
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Re:Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome by jarek on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:31PM (#2094492)
Which, as others in this thread have pointed out, means it was likely explicitly designed to not violate H.264 patents.
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