- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:21:47 +1000
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, 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 Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > >> 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. This is an additional argument against Ian's recent edits: these requirements were in the spec and have now been removed with the removal of a baseline codec requirement. I hope we can get back to the previous state and continue the discussion and developments around baseline codecs. The previous situation was productive - the current one isn't. Regards, Silvia.
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