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- Presbyterian, on 07/19/2009, -3/+57[citation needed]
- nyxerebos, on 07/19/2009, -3/+38It's high time for this. Non-proprietary standards are ascendant in other areas, but for too long video has been dominated by the likes of Microsoft, Real and Adobe, all of whose formats have been designed more for rights holders than usability.
- allenglines878, on 07/19/2009, -2/+24Good to hear they're constantly evolving. Wikipedia is one of my favorite sites.
- KnifeFed, on 07/19/2009, -1/+20But that's a Flash video...
Also, I like the way he pronounces "Firefogg", with the accent. - brianpeiris, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9Ha! The Main Concepts order form is a joke -- you have to pay hundreds of dollars for each encoder plugin! http://www.mainconcept.com/site/prosumer-products- ...
Besides, you'd have to be a sadistic bastard to root against open source video formats. Encoder/decoder speed and efficiency issues are only technical problems, these can and will be solved.
Licensing, patent, and copyright issues are legal problems. Given the law's track-record with conforming to the fast-evolving web, I suspect Ogg has the upper hand here. - addicted68098, on 07/19/2009, -0/+8I think Flash needs to be ditched entirely. Flash is really only used for two things now, video and gif-like advertisements. I really doubt there is any application which flash is good for (aside from helicopter game...fun!) considering how much JavaScript has advanced.
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -1/+8Well, I just think flash needs to die for video applications.
It is not GPU assisted, it will kill notebook battery life, and etc.
So death to flash video. - farfromsubtl, on 07/19/2009, -3/+9Single-core video encoding?! The future is NOW!
- stubear, on 07/19/2009, -0/+5It's clear to me that this guy has little experience creating and editing video. Professional videos are cut from a lot of extra footage, retakes, b-roll, etc. I highly doubt they are going to make thousands of terabytes of high-quality, editable source video available to everyone to do as they please. The people qualified to edit video in a way that informs are going to be turned off by video only being made available in Theora as they have tools capable of working with better quality quicktime, AVI and MPEG files.
- jasorn, on 07/19/2009, -1/+6About time.
- k3nt0456, on 07/19/2009, -1/+5Before Wikipedia the internet was a ***** from the perspective of a student, years later and they're still pushing forward
- Atomic1fire, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3javascript could be used for annoying ads too,
its just a matter of time before <video> gets spammed, or javascript becomes a marketing tool - r3zonance, on 07/19/2009, -3/+6If it doesn't play the video without any extra work required for the end user it'll just piss people off.
I don't care for Theora anyway. H.264 is perfect for my needs and it has hardware acceleration on my Mac/PC and iPhone.
So it'll be a CPU hog to playback on all platforms now. Great! - Ford_Prefect2nd, on 07/19/2009, -1/+4Anyone else find it ironic the that interview was displayed in Flash?
- mrsteveman1, on 07/19/2009, -3/+6Does mainconcept make a firefox plugin? If not, STFU
- KibibyteBrain, on 07/19/2009, -0/+3Adobe plans to include GPU compute type acceleration for playback. MS already has this for silverlight. Still not as good as native H.264 decoding by the GPU but it can get close. Maybe someone can write some theora encoders/decoders that use GPU compute APIs, but sadly FOSS video development seems to move at a snail's pace compared to the guys with the bucks.
- synthoid, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2A shirt for every graduate: http://imgur.com/aHho3.png
- Atomic1fire, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1except that old media has a track record for being anything but useful when it comes to technical things, even if I don't support copyright infringement, its clear to see that normally, they try to drag something in the mud before they use it.
See VCR's
if ogg becomes successful, it will be because of technical backing, and cheap price, free is better then having to pay royalties, especially if people are using it.
if everyone uses the other format, ogg will either fail, or remain in its current state, a video games music/video format. - ArthurSucks, on 07/22/2009, -0/+1Main Concept? Enjoy your blocky video.
- parkskier426, on 07/20/2009, -2/+2linux_unix ?
- FapCommander, on 07/19/2009, -2/+2If it becomes popular enough there will be hardware decoding for ogg
- Hirvesh, on 07/19/2009, -2/+1Cool
- wowsah156, on 07/19/2009, -5/+2How long before these video applications are used to take citations out of context!!
Imagine what "fun" could be had with videos on the Michael Jackson wiki page... - gusyehia, on 07/19/2009, -5/+2lolz firefogg..
- eur0pa, on 07/19/2009, -14/+2I don't care; I'm fine with NON-FREE FLASH VIDEO. ***** OpenSource circlejerking.
- eur0pa, on 07/19/2009, -17/+3Nice. Really. Firefogg encodes using just one thread on one core. Yeah, that's innovation.
***** your ***** open standards, I'll use Main Concept's H264 implementation ;)
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