arstechnica.com— Nokia has recommended to the W3C that the standards body delete all references to the open source Ogg media format from its proposed HTML5 standard.
Dec 10, 2007View in Crawl 4
use of the formatthe open community as a wholeas soon is it says no you cant the video games groups will leavethe open community will devise its own format and ogg will fade into uselessness
IMO, this is just begging for Eolas part II. The problem with audio and video codecs is that no one really knows if they're safe from patent infringement until investigating said infringement is fiscally viable. A patent holder has no obligation to review every codec in existence and notify them of their infringement. Some assh**d could sit back, wait for vendors to roll OGG/Theora in to their browsers, then slap everyone with a law suit, a la Eolas vs. Microsoft.
Ogg Theora Video codec is an abandoned, old VPC codec.When will people understand this sad fact? I am not touching someones old, abandoned codec just because of some GNU fantasy. Mpeg4/ASP and H264 is there, documented, open source supported.
fordiDec 11, 2007
Hey, hey. Say what you want about their business politics in this context, but their phones are *quality*. Or, at least, unbreakable.
smek2Dec 11, 2007
Emoticons and typos. Way to go Nokia.
atomic1fireDec 12, 2007
use of the formatthe open community as a wholeas soon is it says no you cant the video games groups will leavethe open community will devise its own format and ogg will fade into uselessness
bradleylandDec 12, 2007
IMO, this is just begging for Eolas part II. The problem with audio and video codecs is that no one really knows if they're safe from patent infringement until investigating said infringement is fiscally viable. A patent holder has no obligation to review every codec in existence and notify them of their infringement. Some assh**d could sit back, wait for vendors to roll OGG/Theora in to their browsers, then slap everyone with a law suit, a la Eolas vs. Microsoft.
ilgazDec 12, 2007
Ogg Theora Video codec is an abandoned, old VPC codec.When will people understand this sad fact? I am not touching someones old, abandoned codec just because of some GNU fantasy. Mpeg4/ASP and H264 is there, documented, open source supported.
ilgazDec 12, 2007
I heard 4 Nokia engineers committed suicide after reading your comment.
fordiDec 15, 2007
Oh. Go with the cheap ones, then. I almost always own cheap nokias. Built like little tanks.