On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't understand why Nokia and other people
would "ban" and "block"
the adoption of video on internet. Is a bad idea. It don't make
sense.. but I can live with it (Note to self: boycot nokia products).
Nokia and
Apple (who also opposed Theora in HTML5) are not 'banning'
or 'blocking' the adoption of video on the internet, simply look at
the success of Apple's iTunes video store and its Quicktime
technology. Also, both companies are very active within the free /
open-source movement, especially Nokia who bought Trolltech (makers of
the popular Qt widget library for Linux). Apple uses and writes lots
of open source software, including the kernel for Mac OS X, Darwin.
The more sensible explanation for their rejection of OGG Theora are
more logical reasons, such as the lack of tooling within the
professional market and the somewhat difficult patent situation.
Anyway here is the important bits:
OGG is the way to go for audio, and OGV is the way to go for video.
Mostly because... open source tools will support that formats. Thats
how stuff like PNG extend, because is supported by your tools.
OGG Vorbis (audio)
is definitely a solid standard, but i'm not that
sure about Theora. Video encoding is a difficult thing to tackle, and
a legal minefield in terms of patents for encoding algorhytms (just
try making sense out of the patent situation for MPEG) which Theora
might use (i am not a lawyer or an expert on that subject, so if
anyone can confirm or disprove this claim, please do so). Also,
authoring tooling (especially in popular commercial packages such as
Final Cut Pro and Premiere) is nearly unavailable for Theora, as is
good support for playback. Currently, Theora is a nice alternative,
but i'm hoping that better alternatives such as the Dirac codec (which
is financially backed by the BBC) will take of soon.
-- Hay / Husky