- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:08:20 +0000
On 12 Dec 2007, at 17:44, David Gerard wrote: > On 12/12/2007, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar at googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 12 Dec 2007, at 14:23, David Gerard wrote: > >>> FWIW, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons only allow unencumbered >>> formats >>> on the site. Video MUST be Ogg Theora. Compressed audio better be >>> Ogg. > >> Why must video just one of many unencumbered formats? > > > Er, what are the others? Technically speaking, Theora is actually unencumbered (it just has a RF license covering the patents from On2). Dirac is in a similar situation. Apart from those two, the others I can think of are those that are in excess of twenty years old (and therefore their patents have expired), such as H.260. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
Received on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 10:08:20 UTC