Why QuickTime??? [LWN.net]

Why QuickTime???

Posted Apr 12, 2006 17:30 UTC (Wed) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)
In reply to: Why QuickTime??? by Ross
Parent article: First "Firefox Flicks" released

(smacks self on head)
I knew that. Mpeg Audio Layer 3 (but you mean MPEG1 -- MPEG2 is video). Same sentiment applies. Everybody wants to own a piece of an "open" standard, because they think that's the way to profit. Everybody uses, everybody pays, they win. And it ruins the landscape. ISO/IEC working groups working on behalf of companies that want to own their output exclusively.

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Why QuickTime???

Posted Apr 12, 2006 21:12 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

nitpick: MPEG1 and MPEG2 are both video standards for different bitrates and applications, and the MPEG group specified some audio streams for them as this is pretty useful for many video applications.