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Patents, Video, and an Open Internet
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| In light of this, Ogg Theora seems like a good alternative as it doesnât seem
| to be encumbered by patents. Google and Apple, though, are not so sure. They
| believe Theora hasnât been cooking long enough to draw the attention of any
| submarine patent holders. Theora advocates turn this argument around and
| suggest that H.264 could also have undiscovered patent encumbrances. I
| appreciate the logic of what theyâre saying, but the fact that H.264 is
| already so wildly popular for so long seems to guarantee that any patent
| trolls would have surfaced by now.
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http://onepeople.org/node/1563
A Jesuit's Guide to Open Standards
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| The logic here seems to be that there would be an âimbalanceâ in open
| standards if it were insisted that patents were excluded â because balance
| obviously means having standards with and without patents. While it's true
| that creates a âbalanceâ, it's a purely linguistic one; the fact is that
| patent-encumbered standards requiring licensing fees cannot, by definition,
| be open. That's because they do not create level playing fields: there is
| always one or more players who occupy a privileged position. So the balance
| is entirely specious.
|
| [...]
|
| Against that background of a standardisation process being bent to breaking
| point, complaints about the *balance* of open standards ring rather hollow.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2408&blogid=14
Recent:
Another online-video comparison
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| As Greg Maxwell nicely pointed out it appears Theora can compete with other
| formats used to distribute video content online. He compared output generated
| by YouTube's encoding mechanism with output generated by the new Theora
| enconder (as of writing libtheora 1.1alpha2 is the latest release). The
| result in a nutshell: Theora delivers similar performance to whatever encoder
| setup is currently used at YouTube - this means online streaming services can
| use open media technology without paying a significant price in bitrate or
| quality compared to current setups.
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http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/youtube/
W3C launches appeal to scupper Apple patent
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| The W3C, custodians of web standards, have launched an appeal for prior art
| to contest an Apple patent that appears to cover any kind of automated
| updating procedure, including the Widget standard on which the group is
| working.
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| The patent, filed in 1995 and awarded in 1998, and which Apple revealed to
| the W3C in March, covers an application contacting a central server to see if
| a new version is available, and downloading the replacement if it is. As such
| it would appear to cover most of the automated updating systems commonly in
| use today, though the W3C is most concerned with the impact it's going to
| have on the forthcoming widget standards.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/17/w3c_apple_prior_art/
Google Considerations: OGG Theora or H.264?
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| An employee of Google has expressed himself regarding the disadvantages of
| OGG Theora in comparison with H.264 in a discussion on the mailing list of
| the web hypertext application technology working group.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/google_considerations_ogg_theora_or_h_264
an update on open video codecs and quality
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| Two days ago we posted a comparison by Greg Maxwell of low and medium
| resolution YouTube videos vs. Theora counterparts at the same bit rates. The
| result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and
| more or less the same at the slightly higher bit rate. The conclusion being
| that Theora is perfectly appropriate for a site like YouTube.
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http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/update-on-open-video-quality/
Fwd: [theora] Safari 4 Plays Theora/Vorbis
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.evangelism/browse_thread/thread/b4b6017edc1c27f1#
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