[whatwg] Video

[Robert J Crisler]

I wrote:

>> From my perspective, and for what it's worth, I doubt that
>> the ideals of the W3C as expressed in 3.12.7.1 <http://3.12.7.1>  
>> would
>> result in a situation that would be superior to simply letting the
>> international standards body for audio and video codecs deal with  
>> these
>> technological areas.

Gervase Markham wrote:

> Your plan would, at least, prevent the "standard" codec being  
> supported
> on Free operating systems. Meeting 3.12.7.1 as it stands would not
> prevent this. Therefore, it would be a superior situation.

David Gerard wrote:

The actual solution is a large amount of compelling content in Theora
or similar. Wikimedia is working on this, though we're presently
hampered by a severe lack of money for infrastructure and are unlikely
to have enough in time for FF3/Webkit/HTML5.


- d.


It will be very, very difficult to develop critical mass for content  
encoded in Theora (or Dirac), much less ubiquity. I'm not saying  
there's no point in trying. I applaud the effort, though I have  
misgivings about the W3C setting itself up as a video/audio standards  
organization when we already have the Motion Picture Experts Group.

But ... why not recommend that web developers encode in MPEG-4 AVC or  
Theora? At least that would give some direction out of the current  
morass. ISO/IEC standards, like AVC/h.264, are vastly preferable to  
single-vendor (non)standards from Adobe, MS and Real. Why should the  
W3C choose not create a better situation than the current one (which  
is a mess for developers and a mess for users), while continuing to  
work on the ideal?

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Robert J Crisler

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