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A comment on Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping of H.264. Parent comment

Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by CyberMonk on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:43PM (#2094331)
The difference being that Vorbis has almost no commercial traction. If large, popular services (like YouTube, for instance) decided to go with a codec like WebM, the MPEG-LA might finally decide to make good on those threats.
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by bzbarsky on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @10:57PM (#2094870)
YouTube announced months ago that they're transcoding pretty much everything they have to WebM. They've been working on it ever since; a significant fraction of YouTube videos are available in WebM right this second.
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by patrickaljord on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:48PM (#2094351)
Vorbis is being used in many of the biggest games, the gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar one, why not sue them? Doesn't make sense unless they really secretly hate google and only want to sue them...
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by halo on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:10PM (#2094427)
Spotify uses Vorbis and has ten million users.
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by CyberMonk on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @07:52PM (#2094364)
True, but Vorbis is an audio spec, not a video one. Theora, which would arguably be more on MPEG-LA's radar, is used in only a handful of titles: http://wiki.xiph.org/Games_that_use_Theora
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by blasdel on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @08:33PM (#2094498)
Why did you argue with yourself instead of editing your parent post?
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by jarek on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @09:42PM (#2094697)
I'm guessing he was replying to patrickaljord but the reply button wasn't there yet.
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Re:Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome’s Dropping o... by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:06AM (#2095722)
That's just an out of date list e.g. Starcraft II used Theora (and Vorbis).
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