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YouTube Keeps The Web Locked To Adobe Flash
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| YouTube has endorsed Adobe Flash and
| raised questions about the ability of
| <video> tag to deliver the rich experience
| YouTube offers via Adobe Flash. The
| dependence on proprietary Flash means a
| non-free, non-open Web, contrary to what
| YouTube's parent company Google preaches.
|
| John Harding, Software Engineer, YouTube
| wrote on his blog, "It's important to
| understand what a site like YouTube needs
| from the browser in order to provide a
| good experience for viewers as well as
| content creators. We need to do more than
| just point the browser at a video file
| like the image tag does - thereâs a lot
| more to it than just retrieving and
| displaying a video. The <video> tag
| certainly addresses the basic requirements
| and is making good progress on meeting
| others, but the <video> tag does not
| currently meet all the needs of a site
| like YouTube."
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http://www.muktware.com/news/30/2010/213
Open Video on the Web: Where Are We Now?
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| Back in January 2009, I wrote a post on
| opening video on the web. At the time, the
| Mozilla Foundation had just invested
| $100,000 in the Wikimedia Foundation to
| use Theora for videos on their sites.
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http://fosswire.com/post/2010/06/open-video-on-the-web/
Korea is starting to move away from bad formats (and from Microsoft).
Another High-Tech Barrier Falls in South Korea
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| âThere exists a danger where important
| government documents that should be kept
| for many years might be affected by the
| very existence of Hancom,â Shim Ji-yeon,
| the director of National Assembly Research
| Service said at a hearing in May.
|
| Yang Wang-sung, CTO of Hancom says the
| company has made consistent efforts for
| software openness âregardless of
| governmentâs move.â The productâs
| âoptimized functionsâ for domestic users
| will continue to attract customers, he
| said.
|
| âThe disclosure will allow the HWP to be
| more widely used and further developed in
| different environments, which in turn help
| ultimately enhance its competitiveness,â
| said Mr. Yang.
|
| Microsoft tried to buy Hancom in 1998 but
| was turned away, partly by a popular
| outcry.
|
| In another move to spur competition in
| high-tech products here, government
| officials last month ended restrictions on
| Web encryption technology that had the
| effect of confining online transactions in
| South Korea to Microsoftâs Internet
| Explorer browser.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/02/another-high-tech-barrier-falls-in-south-korea/
Recent:
MPEG LA's AVC/H.264 licensing terms: further analysis
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| One might assume that MPEG LA's obvious
| desire to maximize its royalty income would
| practically guarantee that all significant
| companies infringing its patents would be
| pursued. But the worldwide market is huge
| and if you have a country that's only
| medium-sized, then MPEG LA may decide for
| efficiency reasons to collect royalties only
| from the market leader. That one would face
| a risk of litigation if refusing to pay, but
| if that licensee's competitors don't pay
| because MPEG LA doesn't go after them for
| the time being, then that's an awkward
| situation for the licensee.
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http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/06/mpeg-las-avch264-licensing-terms.html
Bergelt calls Canonical membership part of new OIN strategy
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| The Founding Members direct policy,
| licensees can agree to put down their legal
| briefs, while Associate Members pay an
| unspecified fee and will exist somewhere in
| the middle.
|
| âIn mobile and in desktop weâre bringing in
| relationships where people provide a
| financial commitment, which weâre not
| announcing the amount, to support the
| evolution of OINâs activities into these
| new areas,â said Bergelt.
|
| In other words, expect a select few other
| companies to be invited. Perhaps as many as
| a half-dozen. They and the Founding Members
| will keep Bergeltâs 22-member staff
| employed.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/bergelt-calls-canonical-membership-part-of-new-oin-strategy/6736
Canonical Joins The Open Invention Network
http://techie-buzz.com/foss/canonical-joins-the-open-invention-network.html
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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