[ale] video software programming jobs (MPEG? H.264?)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Jan 9 12:18:01 EST 2009


On 01/09/2009 11:37 AM, aaron wrote:
> Given the W3C announcement of making Ogg Theora THE (actual & open)
> standard for compressed Audio / Video media delivery on the internet,

Can you provide a link to this announcement?  it sounds like really good
news, but i was under the impression that they backed away from
strongly/uniquely endorsing ogg under pressure from the proprietary
format groups.  I'd be really happy to be wrong about that.

> Ogg Theora are GPL Open Source solutions

According to /usr/share/doc/libtheora0/copyright on this debian lenny
system i'm on, theora appears to use a BSD-style license, not GPL.  This
means that folks who want to build proprietary media delivery systems
can use it just as easily as folks who want to build free media delivery
systems.

> why would anyone
> pursue proprietary MPEG/H.264 schemes for a media delivery system?

This is a very good question.

	--dkg

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