Yes. I'm particularly miffed about Steve Jobs FUDding away against Ogg Theora with strong insinuations in various communication from Jobs that MPEG-LA is preparing a lawsuit against ogg as we speak. Maybe true. They've been preparing a lawsuit for the past 6 years. Until Monty and crew actually get sued and its not thrown out almost immediately it doesn't pay to worry so much about it, and Mr. Jobs shouldn't make such overtures.
Unfortunately, microsoft has recently reduced the odds that the non- mobile web moves to Ogg Theora as de-facto standard by promising IE9 support of <video> but only for H.264, like Mac and Windows Safari. Ogg Theora as only standard has never been particularly likely, as many mobile devices include H.264 hardware decoders, and even without them, Ogg Theora is somewhat more CPU intensive to decode. This is no fault of the Xiph crew who have done stellar work, but in order to steer clear of the MPEG-LA patent portfolio they have had to get creative. This is all the MORE reason to get behind Theora, but Joe Schmoe User doesn't care and at least half of all web developers only care about what the users care about. Does anyone know if at some point all patents covering H.264 will run out of time? Is that anywhere near? Can MPEG-LA artificially lengthen this period by somehow refreshing patents or perhaps patent a few 'submarine' algorithms (would be fantastic to turn that submarine patent hokum around and attack MPEG-LA with it). PNG was the superior format but if a tonne of long-term hardware back in the day had hardware GIF decoders that patent issue surrounding GIF would have cleared itself up after a year or two as the unisys LZW patent was nearing its end anyway. On May 3, 12:40 am, Hannu Leinonen <[email protected]> wrote: > An interesting take on H.264 license terms and how they might affect > each one of us in the future. > > http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_an... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
