- From: Kit Grose <kit@iqmultimedia.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:41:03 +1100
On 29/03/2010, at 7:11 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:49, Ashley Sheridan <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: >> I was under the impression that Apple were one of the main opposers to using >> free codecs in-place of their proprietary QuickTime. > > For Theora. They haven't really said much about Vorbis AFAIK. And I think an > audio codec is less likely to have patent issues than a video codec (especially > since Vorbis has a lot of high profile use that should have drawn out any patent > trolls) , and that is what Apple supposedly is worried about. Apple is at heart a hardware company. My understanding of their objections to OGG have been also largely due to a lack of hardware decoder support in their iPods/iPhones. >> Also, when was the last time you ever knew Microsoft to go with standarised >> formats when they can just as easily push one of their own? > > <shug> MS isn't quite who they used to be. They open-source things, and put > things under the open specification promise, and they seem to be very serious > about CSS3 and (X)HTML5 standards now. I think there is at least a chance of > them supporting Vorbis. IE 9 (though not the platform preview) will support H.264 video in the <video> element: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-first-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx I would be inclined to suggest that MS will implement video playback via DirectShow (theoretically enabling any codec the user has installed), but that's pure speculation on my part. ?Kit Grose
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