Last week, everyone at work was talking about WebM and it’s direct and indirect impact on our video conferencing product.
What’s interesting is that I am not sure if Google intensionally announced open sourcing VP8 in a skeptic environment with a lot of open questions, especially legal ones, about H264 patent infringements when using VP8 in commercial products to get free advertisement or it happened this way.
I just read today that Steve Jobs is already talking trash about VP8 claiming that it is buggy and not as good as H264. Typical!
Despite the discouraging advice from Jobs, I decided to take on the adventure of trying VP8 on my own and see if I like it or not. I will be using this blog post to log all the steps I took to get me up and running with VP8 SDK on my Ubuntu 10.04
Installed Git: sudo apt-get -y install git-core gitosis
configured the git account using : git config –global user.email “my_email_address@email_server.com”
Grabbed the Source Code from Github: git clone git://review.webmproject.org/libvpx.git
went inside the source folder and ran ./configure then make
Once you see ivfenc, you are good to go. You can run the commands listed in http://www.webmproject.org/tools/encoder-parameters/ on any video file source.
I think building and running WebM is an extreme easy task and it took me less than 30 minutes to get the examples running! I will write a post later about my comments on the performance of VP8.
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