Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Jul 2009 22:03 UTC
Time for another Week in Review. We had a fairly regular week this week, with the focus somehow being Mac cloners, The Pirate Bay, Mono, and Browsers were also in the spotlight this week with the release of Firefox 3.5, disagreements on the video tag codec, and talking about KHTML.
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RE: stop bashing apple on this
by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 6th Jul 2009 03:48
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Educate yourself:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5...
RE[2]: stop bashing apple on this
by robojerk on Mon 6th Jul 2009 06:10
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Whoa! Broadcasting fees on the h264 codec? I didn't know that was being planned. I see someone saw the deep pockets over at Google and Hulu.
This is starting to feel like the Bluray vs HD-DVD debate.
What about other video streaming sites besides Google? Have they been vocal about this at all?
Maybe the porn industry will once again choose a format for us. I guess we just sit back and wait to see who does what.
RE[2]: stop bashing apple on this
by kaiwai on Mon 6th Jul 2009 09:55
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Thank you for the link - all I can say in response to the article is wow. I am truly shocked at the licencing - I thought the only thing that one had to worry about was simply the CODEC itself but given that broadcast fee's are going to kick in 2010, the CODEC is unaffordable for all but the large media empires. When one views what one would pay for h264, it makes Windows Media Audio and Video look reasonably priced.
I hope that Theora takes off; but I guess the only way is a strong campaign to get 'that codec installed' by way of propagating theora plugin for Quicktime.
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getting pretty sick of the retard crowd going after apple because their favourite 'opensource' codec isn't going to be getting a free pass.
ignoring the bitrate to quality differences (hey, google even said this for youtube as for their reason to not even touch theora), what you people need to realize is playback speed of content going forward has to be taken into consideration (hey flash cpu usage sucks, especially for mobiles).
a big push from apple is to get playable content on mobile hardware. there are a ton of h264 dedicated hardware for dirt cheap while there is nothing happening right now or in the near future for theora decoding.
everything being made today has h264 hardware acceleration and the smallest devices can play HD content now.
i really don't see what mozilla can't include an h264 decoder, it's not like they don't make any money.