Comments on: Should online video encoding be free? http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/ Where TV Finds the Future Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-620248 Anonymous Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:55:49 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-620248 Don't forget, Microsoft's encoding technologies are all free to anyone. Don’t forget, Microsoft’s encoding technologies are all free to anyone.

]]> By: Mike http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-619681 Mike Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:29:30 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-619681 Like Theora, the video equivilent of Ogg Vorbis. Oh, you haven't heard of Theora, the open-source, royalty-free, codec which has been around for years? EXACTLY! You thought I was talking another language. What he advocates has been around for years and nobody's even heard of it. It's not about corporate - it's all about consumer adoption. That's how mp3's became the world-wide audio standard despite the fact that the format is licensed to Phillips Corporation and they draw royalties on licensing non-open-source mp3 software. Like Theora, the video equivilent of Ogg Vorbis.

Oh, you haven’t heard of Theora, the open-source, royalty-free, codec which has been around for years? EXACTLY! You thought I was talking another language. What he advocates has been around for years and nobody’s even heard of it. It’s not about corporate - it’s all about consumer adoption. That’s how mp3’s became the world-wide audio standard despite the fact that the format is licensed to Phillips Corporation and they draw royalties on licensing non-open-source mp3 software.

]]> By: Gorman http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-619637 Gorman Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:40:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/11/should-online-video-encoding-be-free/#comment-619637 All for the idea, but I don't envy the people who will have to pry it out of those companies' cold, dead hands. All for the idea, but I don’t envy the people who will have to pry it out of those companies’ cold, dead hands.

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