[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

[Andrew Lih]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson at kiwix.org>wrote:

> Le 16/01/2014 12:54, Manuel Schneider a écrit :
> > The reason this idea was dismissed is the core of this RfC: patent
> > trolling etc. on H.264 codecs etc. which we would need to allow as raw
> > material.
>
> We have now a pretty good support of TIFF for pictures and FLAC for
> audio streams; but there is still no solution to store lossless (raw)
> video material. This problem is a real one like have underlined Manuel.
>
> The following Wikipedia article proposes a list of lossless video codecs:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs#Lossless_compression_2
>
> Dirac, a free codec developed by the BBC, seems to be a good solution.
> Do people have some experiences with Dirac?
>
>
I actually looked into this last year, but it seems there has been little
to no development of this since two years ago.

-Andrew