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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by cromwellian on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:22PM (#6592957)
They also found HEVC-MSP "worse" in some metrics. Seems a red herring to me. WebP isn't just about replacing JPEG, it's about replacing GIF and PNG. Today, on the web, if you want transparency or animation, you have to choose much worse formats.

And why is it so awful to add WebP to the list of image formats gif, jpg, png, but we can have a much longer list of supported audio codecs? What is different about audio? Or video for that matter? The argument seems rather arbitrary and self serving.

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by gillianseed on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:47PM (#6593571)
I agree with this, I've never understood why Mozilla (are dragging their feet) when it comes to implementing webp.

It's hardly a huge maintenance burden, all development is done upstream and there's an easy to use c library implementation, and of course it's fully open source and royalty free.

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