Quoting RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com>:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:51:40 -0600
Programmer in Training <p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
Quoting Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>:
>
> That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are
> moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and
> open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger
That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen
over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release
saying it won't charge royalties for "free" uses of some of it's
patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have
won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this time a
big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out.
As I understand it, originally Ogg Theora was going to be the standard,
but it's now been left open instead due to uncertainty about Theora
infringing patents. Some sites are using Theora, but most seem to be
going with h.264. I presume that this is due to IE support for h.264.
It's quite possible if the h.264 patents are really as extensive and
broad as mpeg-la claims (also, if they are so overly broad, they need
to be invalidated as patents are for specific inventions).
I believe Google are going with h.264 and a newer BSD licensed codec
they are sponsoring themselves as an open-source, patent-free
alternative.
I thought Google was going with VP8 (as was mentioned earlier)? I have
a friend or two on the HTML5WG mailing list as the source of a good
deal of my info.
--
Yours in Christ,
PIT
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