On 13/12/2007, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> De facto standards are typically undocumented, controlled > >> by only one or two organisations, and patent encumbered. > > It's in this context that I think BBC Dirac in Flash would make sense > for the BBC. The Macromedia Flash container started off with Sorenson > Spark (rumored to be an early version of H.264) and the addition of > On2 VP6 and H.264 since the Adobe takeover showed they know how to > build in a scalable codec.
IMO a better solution than Dirac in Flash is Theora in Ogg. Ogg Theora was going to be in HTML 5, but appears to have been dropped :-( If HTML5 does eventually have Xiph formats, the future of web audio and video will be patent-unemcumbered :-) "there is currently a specification for HTML5 being developed by the WHATWG including the possibility of including a new <video> element in HTML5 with native support for Ogg Theora/Vorbis as a baseline video format by browsers." ... "The problems facing Ogg Theora/Vorbis are really about usability and uptake." - http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/FOSS_Codecs_For_Online_Video:_Usability_Uptake_and_Development_1.2#Future_of_Web_Video "Ogg technology has been removed from the HTML5 spec, after Ian caved in the face of pressure from Apple and Nokia." - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251 -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
