World, Meet Thor - a Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/world-meet-thor-a-project-to-hammer-out-a-royalty-free-video-codec
To further those ends, we began a project to create a new video
codec which would meet these needs. We call this project Thor.
The effort is being staffed by some of the world's most foremost
codec experts, including the legendary Gisle Bjontegaard and
Arild Fuldseth, both of whom have been heavy contributors to
prior video codecs. We also hired patent lawyers and consultants
familiar with this technology area. We created a new codec
development process which would allow us to work through the
long list of patents in this space, and continually evolve our
codec to work around or avoid those patents. Our efforts are far
from complete, but we felt it was time to open this up to the
world. As a result, we released project Thor to the community
two weeks ago. We open sourced the code, which you can find
here: http://thor-codec.org. We also contributed Thor as an
input to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which has
begun a standards activity to develop a next-gen royalty free
video codec in its NetVC workgroup. Mozilla has also been active
in that group, and they have been working on technology as well
(called Daala) towards the same goal. As more technology gets
contributed to this cause, the greater its chance of success.
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--Lauren--
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