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Open Video on a more Open Internet
dankles:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on July 19, 2009, 07:13:00 AM ---oh god no... FSF kool-aid! Run while you still can people!!!
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I'm just trying to maintain my infamous title. ;)
For the record. Not all the software i run is Richard Stallman approved. I'm not *that* extreme. Though I don't think he is exactly wrong either.
dankles:
Some cool stuff I found on h264 vs theora for doing "youtube" type videos:
http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html
http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/youtube/
And some notes on the 1.1-alpha release of theora (obligatory weird codename: Thesnulda)
http://noraisin.net/~jan/diary/?p=77
After seeing stuff like this, I feel much better about having theora live in the HTML5 <video> tag.
Though it seems that for HD content, h264 is still the winner.
N.Maniac 64:
Someone mentioned On2 and VP3 in their post. Speaking of which...
Apparently Google will acquire On2 for their video technology. (Press Release) Google's quote on the matter was:
--- Quote from: Google ---Today video is an essential part of the web experience, and we believe high-quality video compression technology should be a part of the web platform. We are committed to innovation in video quality on the web, and we believe that On2's team and technology will help us further that goal.
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I don't know about you, but to me it sounds like someone wants to use some high-quality video codecs (VP7 and VP8) in HTML5. If they could even open source them... oh man the internets would EXPLODE.
The only problem is that apparently On2 shareholders aren't very happy with On2's board of directors because of the low selling price, and have even filed a class action lawsuit. :O
dankles:
--- Quote from: N.Maniac 64 on August 20, 2009, 06:09:54 AM ---Someone mentioned On2 and VP3 in their post. Speaking of which...
Apparently Google will acquire On2 for their video technology. (Press Release) Google's quote on the matter was:
--- Quote from: Google ---Today video is an essential part of the web experience, and we believe high-quality video compression technology should be a part of the web platform. We are committed to innovation in video quality on the web, and we believe that On2's team and technology will help us further that goal.
--- End quote ---
I don't know about you, but to me it sounds like someone wants to use some high-quality video codecs (VP7 and VP8) in HTML5. If they could even open source them... oh man the internets would EXPLODE.
The only problem is that apparently On2 shareholders aren't very happy with On2's board of directors because of the low selling price, and have even filed a class action lawsuit. :O
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I'm a believer in Free Markets, but this issue with the shareholders in one instance in which capitalism fails. Customers will loose, when business men win.
What I want along with many others is and open video codec standard for the web. VP7/8 would be great if it was free (completely free like theora) which I'm thinking might actually happen seeing as ON2 is also one of the key sponsors for theora.
And I'm thinking that theora isnt such a bad idea even more after reading those articles I posted.
bloody000:
Except, they didn't tell you the encoding time of their theora samples and they didn't know the encoder, encoding options and encoding time of Youtube.
Useless BS at its finest.
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