WebM Ready for Hardware Acceleration
It looks like Google’s WebM VP8 hardware decoder IP is now available for the chip makers. According to the recent announcement, they can now start working on a WebM playback support for their chipsets.
Same report also states that Oulu team is set to release a VP8 video encoder in the first quarter of 2011 as it’s currently ran in an FPGA (Field-programmable gate array) environment.
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Good news. Also they are working on hardware optimizations for regular desktop CPUs, which is nice.
Good news! Death to h264!