On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:58:35AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
This may be of interest:
http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-me...
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open video codec.
Y'know, they say "open", but seeing Amazon and Netflix on the list, smart money says they'll include DRM in the specs somehow.
I won't hold my breath for this one...