On: No, you can't do that with H.264

[ZeroGravitas]

I would buy a company that makes video codecs that don't infringe on the MPEG patents for 133 million dollars. Coincidentally, so did Google:

http://www.on2.com/blog/2009/08/google-and-on2-to-improve-vi...

[robin_reala → ZeroGravitas]

Here’s hoping for the dream scenario: Google release VP8 as a open and free format with a patent indemnity clause, then migrate YouTube over to it. They also release open specifications for a VP8 hardware decoding part, an OpenCL codec, and help Adobe bundle support into Flash for Microsoft and Apple browsers.

Happy days!

[jrockway → robin_reala]

I think Flash is on the way out now. If anything, Google would just release their own plugin.