> I have to wonder if there isn't some NIH fear that if VP8/9 get any degree of success it would make it that much harder to switch to Daala later.
As the person who
A) leads the Daala project, and
B) made the decision to ship VP9 (a conversation that went approximately like this: My Boss: "Should we support VP9 in Firefox?" Me: "Yes. Duh."), and
C) has been fighting hard to make VP8 Mandatory To Implement for WebRTC...
I can tell you that nothing would make me happier than to see VP8 and VP9 be wildly successful. Hell, I'd've been ecstatic if we'd successfully managed to get H.264 Baseline made RF (there was an effort to do so a couple of years ago: it failed by 2 votes). See also OpenH264.
As the person who
A) leads the Daala project, and
B) made the decision to ship VP9 (a conversation that went approximately like this: My Boss: "Should we support VP9 in Firefox?" Me: "Yes. Duh."), and
C) has been fighting hard to make VP8 Mandatory To Implement for WebRTC...
I can tell you that nothing would make me happier than to see VP8 and VP9 be wildly successful. Hell, I'd've been ecstatic if we'd successfully managed to get H.264 Baseline made RF (there was an effort to do so a couple of years ago: it failed by 2 votes). See also OpenH264.