Star Week in Review: Clones, Pirates, Browsers
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Jul 2009 22:03 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes 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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robojerk Member since:
2006-01-10

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.

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kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

Educate yourself:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5...


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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