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MS embraces/shuns Google's open video codec | |
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| Time: 08:13 EST/13:13 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Andi Stabryla | ||
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Microsoft has teamed with the Google-backed WebM project to announce software that allows Internet Explorer 9 and other Windows applications to render video using WebM, the web-media format that Google open sourced under a royalty-free license last year. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (173.27.244.6) at 3/18/2011 6:58:59 PM |
| I encourage all to avoid installing the codec. It continuously phones home as evidenced by the requests for approval by my firewall. I uninstalled it only one day after installing it. Too buggy in many ways. |
| #2 By 15406 (99.240.77.173) at 3/20/2011 7:50:16 AM |
| #1: Is it trying to hit an URL or is it making a socket connection? Which address? This is interesting. Google had to know they'd get spanked for blasting everyone's play history back to the mothership. |
| #3 By 21912 (75.0.3.214) at 3/21/2011 4:03:14 AM |
| #1 bobsireno, I just now tried it myself and observed the same "phone home" behavior, but it doesn't appear to be the codec itself dropping the dime. Installation of the codec includes a Google update checker, which can be disabled via Services in the the Computer Management console AND the Windows Scheduler (disable both). There's also an entry for it in IE9's add-on list, but that doesn't seem to have an effect that I can see. Anyway, if you let it make the connection, it only reconnects hourly after that (according to the Scheduler configuration), or at user logon. The high frequency that you observed was probably caused when you refused the connection, and the updater is a persistent little bugger on failure. |
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