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Source -Microsoft to support VP8 video codec with Internet Explorer 9, after all?
Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren’t the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers. Microsoft is going to do the same, as well, according to my tipsters.
Update: It seems like the tipsters were on the money. See below for Microsoft’s latest codec-support statement.
(I don’t know exactly when or how Microsoft is going to support VP8 with Internet Explorer. But given IE 9 is unlikely to ship until 2011, according to various sources of mine, the Redmondians have some time to figure it out.)
At the Google I/O conference on May 19, Mozilla and Opera announced with much fanfare their plans to support VP8 codec, which Google acquired when it bought On2 Technology. At the I/O confab, Google unveiled the WebM container, which includes VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio support. (Google officials said WebM will work well on even lower-power devices, including netbooks and handhelds, according to Engadget.) WebM is going to be available under a royalty-free BSD open-source license.
At the end of April, Microsoft IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch created a bit of controversy when he blogged that IE 9 would support the H.264 codec only. In an update to his comments, Hachamovitch said IE 9 users will, of course, be free to download and install other codecs. But the implication was that IE 9 would include built-in support for H.264 only.
Microsoft to support VP8 video codec with Internet Explorer 9, after all? | ZDNet
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