- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:52:47 -0700
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Joe D Williams <joedwil@earthlink.net>, robert@ocallahan.org, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, public-html@w3.org
On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > > It will only change if: > 1) patents expire (which will take too long) > 2) we do something about it (or at least attempt to). > > Have the requirements of all the companies been collected > somewhere? If not, we should do so. What are Apple's > requirements? Maybe the thing we can change is those requirements. Ian stated the following requirements for a baseline codec: - is implementable without cost and distributable by anyone - has off-the-shelf decoder hardware chips available - is used widely enough to justify the extra patent exposure - has a quality-per-bit high enough for large volume sites I believe this is a reasonable summary of the requirements that have been stated by various parties. Regards, Maciej
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