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Originally Posted by oibaf
I think VP9 will be released in a similar manner of VP8. However there is an ongoing working group (WG) for an Opus-like IETF standardized video codec. The participants have mail domain name of Cisco.com, Xiph.org, Juniper.net, Mozilla.org, Google and others. See more info about the first meeting (2012-11-05) here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting...#wg-videocodec
Note the Google VPnext presentation, Google is likely interested in the standardizing effort, however this is probably a long term solution, VP9 should be completed sooner (just guessing from what I read on the net). 
To keep updated see also the video-codec WG mailing list:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web.../maillist.html |
By Opus like, i was referring to its technical superiority rather then patents free, IETF or whats not. Opus perform better then all other popular codec as a real time voice codec and also as a lossy music codec. And there is still a lot of improvement and tuning to be made for such a young codec!
I am not sure if such technical superiority is possible with x264 as a competitor.