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mbrubeck on May 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebM - an open web media project

Both Mozilla and Google funded work to implement hardware-accelerated Theora on mobile devices[1][2]. While I don't know of any similar efforts for VP8 yet, I'd guess that it is inevitable.

[1]: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-ti...

[2]: http://blog.mjg.im/2010/04/16/theora-on-n900.html

zokier on May 19, 2010 [–]

On2 was already developing hardware solutions (iirc they already had hw encoder/decoder designs) for their codecs before G acquired them.

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