Or possibly vice-versa: they appear to have been touting a desktop client app with remote rendering tech including a "codec" called orbx for a couple of years. So this could just be compiling the decoder via emscripten like Broadway and Route9 did for H.264 and VP8.
However, one of the Mozilla guys is quoted as saying it was built from the ground up for browsers (and the vague descriptions of the old codec, don't sound like a normal codec) so maybe they're just repurposing the name.
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I believe OnLive uses Flash or some other plugin to stream content.
As far as I can tell, the breakthrough that OTOY is claiming is this:
- They've developed a new video compression format and implementation that provides better compression ratios than h.264 [which implementation?].
- Their new format can be encoded very efficiently using a GPU-based encoder.
- Their encoder is very low-latency.
- They have a decoder written in JavaScript that can run in the browser.
- Their decoder is very low-latency.
All the cloud/streaming/remote desktop stuff is somewhat ancillary to this.
Or possibly vice-versa: they appear to have been touting a desktop client app with remote rendering tech including a "codec" called orbx for a couple of years. So this could just be compiling the decoder via emscripten like Broadway and Route9 did for H.264 and VP8.
However, one of the Mozilla guys is quoted as saying it was built from the ground up for browsers (and the vague descriptions of the old codec, don't sound like a normal codec) so maybe they're just repurposing the name.