- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:23:52 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, I Holroyd wrote: > > Setting a free and open source solution as THE STANDARD is the only > ethical solution. I believe everyone agrees that the desired solution for a common video codec in HTML5 is one that is freely implementable and royalty free, amongst other requirements. > Anyone is free to support it, adapt it and improve it, but no one has > to, but we can all be assured that the flow of information we desire is > available, without charge, to anyone at all - that is the purpose of > standards and especially internet standards. I'm not sure this makes sense -- if not everyone is required to implement the common codec, how can we ensure that everyone can be assured that they can use it in an interoperable manner? > Can we make standards ISO compliant Ironically, the only high or moderately high quality ISO standard video codecs that I'm aware of are the MPEG codecs, which are not royalty free. Everyone agrees that we need a free and open codec. However, those are not the only requirements -- we also need a codec that everyone is willing to implement. We are still working on finding such a codec. Thaks for your input, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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