The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)

The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 13, 2005 19:58 UTC (Wed) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
In reply to: The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld) by allesfresser
Parent article: The BBC seeks escape from patent minefield (InfoWorld)

From the FAQ :

What about Ogg Theora? Theora is coming on very nicely, and has an impressive, well-defined spec.We're not quite so advanced yet, but we already have much better compression performance. We think you can't have too many free codecs, and that the Open Source community also needs to continue to develop codecs with increasingly better performance. Theora has helped create a pool of Open Source compression experts, which is of benefit to everyone in the field. We intend to pack the Dirac elementary stream into MXF, which has lots of useful features. That doesn't preclude it packing into Ogg (or Matroska, or anything else ) as well, and it's probably a good idea to have a variety of packing formats. For this the elementary stream needs to be very well defined.

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