ByronM - 9:51 pm on Jan 24, 2011 (gmt 0)

Are there any decent royalty-free codecs out there that ware better than WebM?

Windows (vista or newer) & Mac OSX both already come with h264 codecs by default. They're more than decent. Divx is pretty frequently updated to support new features & enhancements. Nvidia and AMD accelerate H264 very nicely on their gpus to.