Thanks Jay!
I'll just be happy when VLC has perfected transcoding videos from any
format to any format.
In the ability to play any video format VLC and open source are far
superior due their ability to skirt hundreds of different incompatible
licensing issues.
THis also means open source will clearly have the edge in transcoding
between formats in the future.
These to core things alone are the bedrock of all video editing and
the primary need of 99% of home users out there.
What's more open source transcoding is already dominating in consumer
friendly websites like vixy.net and mux.am... though I'm not sure what
the primary video hosts from youtube, to vimeo to blip are using.
Even though video editing will always be based on the desktop cumputer
the line is going to increasingly blur.
What's most important to me is that video be able to transparently be
shifted into whatever format / codec / size you need it for whatever
device. Indeed the cloud is rapidly addressing this issue.
Hopefully some universal standard will evolve for serving videos to
any device though I look around and couldn't pic where it is going. I
don't think flash can possibly adapt to the thousands of handheld
devices, but then I've been wrong about flash before.
-Mike
mmeiser.com/blog
flickr.com/photos/mmeiser2
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FOSS (free and open source software) tools for video are still a long way
from competing with tools like FCP.
BUT open source video tools are moving forward.
The key is to get video creators to start talking to the FOSS developers.
and for the really hardcore...there is http://openvideoalliance.org.
This is a new initiative to get video creators and developers to start
agreeing on what is needed for the video workflow to be all open
source.
Jay
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