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Revision as of 08:03, 17 June 2010

VP8 Is a video codec and format created by On2 (now owned by Google) and recently released as open source under a BSD-like license. It offers a higher quality alternative to the Ogg Theora codec, in the battle against the proprietary and patent-encumbered H.264 standard.

MPEG-LA

The CEO of MPEG-LA, Larry Horn, is preparing a patent pool to be used against VP8. The threat may not be credible since similar claims were made against Theora.

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