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

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Jan 9 12:52:28 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 11:37 -0500, aaron wrote:
> Just a thought, but...
> 
> Given the W3C announcement of making Ogg Theora THE (actual & open)
> standard for compressed Audio / Video media delivery on the internet,
> AND given that this is supported my Mozilla's plans to embed Ogg
> Theora support in the next major releases of their bowsers, AND knowing
> that Ogg Theora are GPL Open Source solutions, why would anyone
> pursue proprietary MPEG/H.264 schemes for a media delivery system?

I thought most national standards bodies settled on some variation of
MPEG/H.264 for digital television broadcast? I would guess digital cable
providers are doing something similar as well.

-Brian



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