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

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:42:11PM +0100, adam hyde said:
> 
> > 
> > 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.

yep i agree. the more people using it the greater its cultural and
practical importance. manuals can only help here..

regarding Theora development it is a shame it's slowed done so much.
sadly it's not such a viable codec for use on low-end systems given the
CPU hit is so high compared to many other popular proprietary codecs.

nonetheless, i use it wherever possible (esp because 'Thoggen' rocks
Debianista's: 'apt-get install thoggen').

choice,

julian

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