Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web [LWN.net]

Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 26, 2010 21:52 UTC (Tue) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

The solution is very simple: make a better video codec! If you can, that is.

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Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 26, 2010 22:15 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (guest, #56877) [Link] (3 responses)

Dirac is underway. Doesn't mean that the MPEG-LA cabal won't shoot you down anyway, since they stand to lose their profits and ability to bully others.

Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Posted Jan 27, 2010 0:05 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

When I looked into it a few years ago, I heard that Dirac wasn't a viable replacment for mpeg/h264/ogg and never will be because that's not it's goal. It was designed to make high-quality copies of videos for archiving. This was the reason the BBC's own (DRM'd) online movie player doesn't use Dirac.

(Maybe things have changed. I think it was 2008 when I read that.)

Dirac

Posted Jan 30, 2010 16:06 UTC (Sat) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link] (1 responses)

Dirac development appears stalled. There are no new releases and activity on their CVS repositories has stopped.

Dirac

Posted Jan 30, 2010 16:19 UTC (Sat) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link]

After a bit more investigation it appears that libschroedinger has switched to git and there is some activity on the git repository. Whether libdirac also switched, I don't know.

http://diracvideo.org/

is completely useless and provides little information unfortunately...