[whatwg] The truth about Nokias claims

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Charles,

This needs some correction, too, I think. :-)

Ogg Theora is not the same as VC3. It was built out of VC3 and the
specification is available freely and openly and there has been a 1.0
release of the specification, so it is also managed well from that
point of view. That Xiph is not an official standards body doesn't
really mean much.

So, while you can call VC3 "proprietary", you cannot do the same with
Theora IMHO.

Regards,
Silvia.


On Dec 14, 2007 5:45 AM, Charles <lists07 at wiltgen.net> wrote:
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> [The "anti-Ogg camp"] are acting with their shareholders in mind. They have
> everything to gain and nothing to loose as they all have their platforms,
> i.e. Window, OS X, Itunes, cellular handset, that they control/use their
> propiety formats.
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> I guess you're implying that AVC/H.264 is "proprietary", which is false.
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> AVC is a standard under both the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and
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> Also, AVC is a de-facto standard. Every iPod supports it. Every PSP supports
> it. Every HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player supports it. The mobile ecosystem has
> long since adopted MPEG-4, and most video services either use AVC now or are
> on track to. Even Adobe, who's had lots of success to this point with
> proprietary formats, has finally adopted it a replacement of VP6.
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> Comparing apples-to-apples, Ogg Theora isn't a standard. It was a
> proprietary On2 video codec, and it didn't become a standard just because
> On2 gave everyone a royalty-free license, so you can see how some people
> might still think of it as proprietary. The fact that it's open-source isn't
> relevant, since of course there are open-source implementations of AVC as
> well. It was already old technology when On2 gave it away, so it's
> MPEG-1-like inefficiency makes it retro (to put it kindly) on the PC, and
> completely unsuitable for typicaly 3G mobile throughput.
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> I hope this has been helpful,
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