Open Video
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 there is a good summary here. The group’s email discussion alias is here — and my view, expressed there [...]
Open Video Movement Gains Steam
The crying need for Open Video continues to break out from under the radar, as evidenced by the blue-ribbon sponsors and diverse community of the just-announced inaugural Open Video Conference to be held June 12. Organizers include Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and partners include the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard [...]
OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009″
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 is nothing that standards bodies can solve. The most promising is that Sun Microsystems is developing an open codec [...]
MPEG at 20
Updating market information in this post on the release of the royalty-free OMS Video draft specification, here are data points about MPEG released at the MPEG 20th Year Anniversary Commemoration in Tokyo in November 2008. Importantly, Lawrence A. Horn, CEO of the license administration company, affirmed the: “Freedom of Licensors and Licensees to develop competing [...]
Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals
“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 future of open media codecs”, the FOMS group has set aside 15% of its budget to support patent analysis. [...]
Mozilla Foundation Invests in Open Video
Open video — specifically open, royalty-free video and media formats — got a boost when Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday it is providing $100K to support development of improved Theora encoders and more powerful playback libraries. That’s great news, hugely deserved, and even TechCrunch took note. Congratulations! Now venture capitalists, enterprises, governments, education & research facilities [...]