Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 24th Feb 2008 21:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
"The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard for Flash or Flash Video formats; indeed, most sites that use these formats simply serve standalone, unencrypted files via ordinary web servers. Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software."
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2006-02-01
No, don't do that.
Don't get me wrong, I like the sentiment, but the trouble is that Theora is rubbish. It's rubbish compared even to XVid/DivX, let alone H.264 or WMV9.
Admittedly, work is (finally) being done to improve the quality of the reference encoder, and that's great, but it doesn't solve the problem that Theora is a codec that is (at least) two generations old.
Where the free software/free culture people should be focusing their attention now is Dirac; a state-of-the-art wavelet-based codec developed by the BBC. It is, according to the BBC's lawyers, patent unencumbered, and is on its way to being standardised as VC-2 (Microsoft's WMV9 is VC-1). An MIT-licenced implementation, Schroedinger, has been developed by Fluendo, and has just hit 1.0.
Exciting times!