{"id":2941,"date":"2010-10-07T23:05:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2010-10-07T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:11:10","slug":"webm-cabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/webm-cabal\/","title":{"rendered":"WebM Cabal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to a secret clubhouse today to take part in a clandestine meeting to discuss exactly how WebM will rule over all that you see and hear on the web. I can&#8217;t really talk about it. But I can show you the cool hat I got:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/webm-schwag.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WebM hat\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2942\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Yeah, you&#8217;re jealous.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The back of the hat has an Easter egg for video codec nerds&#8211; the original Duck Corporation logo (<a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/reflections-on-on2\/\">On2&#8217;s original name<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/webm-schwag-duck-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WebM hat feature the Duck Corporation logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2945\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Former employees of On2 (now Googlers) were well-represented. It was an emotional day of closure as I met the person &#8212; the only person to date &#8212; who <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/legal-threat-00001\/\">contacted me with a legal threat<\/a> so many years ago. He still remembered me too.<\/p>\n<p>I met a lot of people involved in creating various Duck and On2 codecs and learned a lot of history and lore behind then&#8211; history I hope to be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/\">document<\/a> one day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I got that <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/the-worst-vp8-encoder\/\">first rough draft of a toy VP8 encoder<\/a> done in time for the meeting. It was the subject of much mirth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-details from the WebM meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on2duck","category-vp8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}