Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
June 3, 2010 – 4:38 pm | No Comment

As readers of this blog know, I am a long-time proponent of royalty-free standardization as the best option for open Web media, preferable to informal, vendor-run open-sourcing of undocumented or unreviewed Intellectual Property Rights.
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Royalty free codec standards — don’t settle for less
December 9, 2009 – 10:37 pm | No Comment
Royalty free codec standards — don’t settle for less

After a lively debate, the IETF appears to be moving forward with a royalty-free audio codec standardization activity.  Here’s to its successful launch and positive outcome.
I’ve put a brief summary at the mpegrf.com site, and …

And the Best Answer For Open Web Video Is …
July 10, 2009 – 3:57 pm | One Comment
And the Best Answer For Open Web Video Is …

In a virtual rematch of 18 months ago, the HTML 5 community has again stalemated on how to include video capability.  On June 29, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson posted on the whatwg mailing list:
After …

OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009″
February 18, 2009 – 11:03 am | No Comment

Sun’s OMS Video codec work was mentioned in Matt Raible’s notes from the “The State of the Web 2009″ session at this week’s Web Directions North conference:
“Very specifically, there’s no royalty-free codec for video. This …

Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals
February 10, 2009 – 4:55 pm | One Comment

“Patent and legal issues” topped, at least numerically, the community goals developed at the recently-held Foundations of Open Media 2009 workshop, a write-up of which was just posted here.
Also noted in “Patents and the bright …

OMS Video Draft Specification Released
December 13, 2008 – 2:11 pm | 6 Comments

The “Open Media Stack – Video Specification V0.9″ is now available for community review at the Open Media Commons website.
OMS, announced in April 2008, is a project of Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Commons initiative to …