[FM Discuss] Fwd: [Consortium] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5

[Seth Woodworth]

The Nodia brief doesn't actually mention OGG being proprietary.  It simply
complains about it's lack of DRM.  /. always bothers me with stuff like
this.  Still this is an awful blow.

I've seen a few very good examples recently of OGG/theora, namely
Waveplace.org's website and Colingo.org's language/phrase videos.

I've been trying to help Ben at Colingo to encode with Ogg/theora+speex.
Vorbis was very wasteful for the spoken audio that he was using.  It took a
couple extra steps for me, not being super familiar with ffmpeg2theora, but
I would be glad to document the final processes.

On Dec 17, 2007 6:42 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

>
> >
> > the sad thing is that this untrue claim of ogg/theora/vorbis being
> > proprietary due to patent liability is just a facade: media giants such
> > as Apple have bee lobbying the W3C hard against including
> > ogg/theora/vorbis in the HTML-5 specification in favour of their own DRM
> > capable Quicktime technology.
> >
> > Nokia is just playing cloak-and-daggers to look after upstream channel
> > providers for their handsets IMO.
> >
> > it doesn't matter how 'good' the technology is: if it doesn't support
> > DRM then standards bodies like the W3C will be shoved and bribed -
> > as they are now - until a DRM capable platform becomes default.
> >
> > this may get quite messy. education as to the real root of this problem
> is
> > important to leverage public concern to pressure the W3C to change their
> > mind. HTML is spoken by 100's of millions of people afterall.
> >
>
>
> its nasty business alright. Unfortunately however, Theora doesn't seem
> to be maintained as well as it was a few years ago. There was mention in
> the Slashdot forum about this and its sad but true. Theora is lagging
> behind the dev. Still its very useful and we should do what we can to
> provide good docs on how to get the most out of it.
>
> adam
>
>
>
> > julian
> >
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