On 17 Mai, 21:36, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I count myself lucky to be living in a country
> where media standards are not dictated simply by the de-factory
> proprietary format

Hm, I don't know which country you live on, but you must not watch
DVDs, Blu-Ray, terrestrial television, cable, satellite, the Internet
or Netflix there.
- DVD: MPEG-2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd#DVD_Video)
- Blu Ray: MPEG-2, H.264 or Microsoft's VC-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Video)
- DVB-T: MPEG-2, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-
T#Basics_of_DVB-T)
- DVB-T2: MPEG-2, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2#History)
- DVB-C/C2: MPEG-2, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-C)
- DVB-S: MPEG-2, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-S)
- DVB-S2: MPEG-2, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-
S2#Main_features)
- Flash Video: Sorenson, VP6, H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Flash_video#Codec_support),
- Silverlight: H.264, VC-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Silverlight#Silverlight_2)
- Netflix: Microsoft's VC-1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Netflix#Internet_streaming)

26% of all web video is now available for playback in HTML5 using H.
264 (was 10% in January 2010) and about 66% of all web video is H.264
(see the two studies linked here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/05/ipad-may-be-pushing-160-increase-in-h264-video-online.ars).
You can debate the exact numbers, but I'd be hard-pressed to declare
anything but the rule of proprietary video codecs on the Internet (or
on your TV set).

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