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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Defends Flash, Warns HTML5 Will Throw The Web âBack
To The Dark Ages Of Videoâ
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| Adobeâs Flash technology has been taking a
| beating lately. Apple still wonât support it
| on its upcoming iPad or its iPhone. Steve
| Jobs calls it buggy and crash-prone and
| dismisses Adobe as being lazy. Adobe is
| trying to fight the negative vibes emanating
| from Cupertino and elsewhere. It has already
| pointed out that it will be easy to convert
| Flash apps into iPad apps, and now CTO Kevin
| Lynch is weighing in to defend Flash.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-defends-flash/
Oh, What a Lovely Standards War
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| You know something big must be afoot when
| people start to get worked up over video
| compression standards. Basically, the issue
| is whether the current de facto standard,
| H.264, will continue to dominate this field,
| and if not, what might take over.
|
| [...]
|
| The key point here is that Mozilla's
| stubbornness on this issue has *already*
| made a difference â a financial difference
| in this case. It demonstrates that Mozilla
| was right to be stubborn, and shows why it
| is right to stand up for the Open Web
| wherever it may be threatened. Moreover,
| this provides yet another demonstration of
| the fact that you don't have to believe in
| free software's principles to benefit from
| its victories: you get them to share in them
| anyway.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2775
China (Hearts) Royalty-Free Standards?
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| The royalty-free option is exactly what free
| software needs, and what patent holders have
| been fighting against so hard in the West
| (nominal fee is still problematic, though).
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/china-hearts-royalty-free-standards.html
Recent:
MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1528242/MPEG-LA-Extends-H264-Royalty-Free-Period
H.264 for Internet video to be royalty free till 2016
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| The move will allow internet broadcasters,
| including YouTube and Vimeo, to continue
| providing H.264 encoded content.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/H-264-for-Internet-video-to-be-royalty-free-till-2016-921828.html
No, you canât do that with H.264
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| A lot of commercial software comes with
| H.264 encoders and decoders, and some
| computers arrive with this software
| preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to
| believe that they can legally view and
| create H.264 videos for whatever purpose
| they like. Unfortunately for them, it ainât
| so.
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http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/
W3C proposes hardware interface
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| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) draft
| for a "System Information API" specifies
| JavaScript functions for accessing the
| battery, CPU, sensors and other hardware
| characteristics of a device. For this
| purpose, the window.navigator object's
| SystemInfo interface has to implement the
| get, set and watch methods. set can only be
| applied to some screen properties such as
| brightness and orientation, while all other
| hardware properties are marked as readonly.
| watch is used for monitoring readings, for
| example those of a heat sensor.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/W3C-proposes-hardware-interface-921734.html
MPlayer Now Supports Most HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Codecs
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| This news is coming a few days late
| (MPlayer's web-site lacks any RSS or
| syndication support), but the latest
| MPlayer code in their SVN trunk now
| supports most HD-DVD and Blu-ray codecs.
| Earlier this year we talked about possible
| Blu-ray support for FFmpeg and developers
| becoming more interested after we
| interviewed the FFmpeg developers and there
| ended up being an outpouring of support by
| our readers offering up Blu-ray drives and
| other forms of help.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcwMQ
FFmpeg Gains VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP Acceleration
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| What we were in the process of writing
| about when we discovered MPlayer's support
| for most Blu-ray and HD-DVD codecs was that
| there is now support for MPEG-4 ASP
| decoding with VDPAU (NVIDIA's Video Decode
| and Presentation API for Unix) in the
| mainline FFmpeg tree.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcwMg
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