[LAU] seen at google/io --> let the open/closed media format wars begin!

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Wed May 19 19:14:25 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Niels Mayer's message of 2010-05-19 21:00:56 +0200:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20005328-265.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
> 
> Most relevant to this community: http://www.webmproject.org/
> 
> The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video
> > format for the web that is freely available to everyone.The WebM launch is
> > supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers,
> > software and hardware vendors.
> 
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20005378-264.html
> 
> Video streaming is a complicated by patents, though. Mozilla's top lawyer
> > argues that Ogg Theora is safe to use in regards to patents. But Microsoft
> > has cast doubts on Ogg Theora, and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs
> > apparently is considering a patent attack on open-source video codecs.

Is there a way to see the talk? I saw that it was live streamed using
some youtube thing, which required flash...
-- 

Regards,
Philipp



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