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Who owns your data?Who owns your data?Posted May 10, 2012 3:40 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)Parent article: Who owns your data?
Multimedia seems to be at least a minor exception to this. Most of the important formats were created by industry consortia, so they're fairly well documented and widely available. That also limits the extent to which companies can tamper with the formats in an attempt at user control, since they have to retain compatibility with well established standards. The biggest exception I can think of are the huge range of proprietary raw image formats created by digital camera companies, and even there we have projects like dcraw that have effectively documented the formats in the form of functioning decoding code.
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Who owns your data? Posted May 10, 2012 11:15 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
You are talking about a recent development.
May I remind you of realaudio, indeo, cinepak, etc.? Videos of this time (1990s) were generally too crappy to remember, but a lot of actually useful audio recordings are still locked up in RA format.
Who owns your data? Posted May 11, 2012 21:27 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] Didn't Real Audio eventually release an Open Source version of their player?
Who owns your data? Posted May 12, 2012 15:51 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
The Fury3 game CD has videos in Cinepak format, and today's MPlayer still recognizes and plays them.
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