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Wired reports that Amazon, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, and Cisco have teamed up to create a new video format in order to replace Adobe Flash. It is designed to work on low powered devices at an amazing quality. It will also support copy protection. The format will be released under the Apache 2.0 License which means it's open source and royalty free. It does not have a name yet.

 

 

THE LIST, WITH a few notable exceptions, is a roster of some of the biggest names in tech: Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix are teaming up to revamp the way video works over the Internet.
 

 

The companies have joined together as the Alliance for Open Media to create a new open source video format.

 


Source: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/techs-biggest-names-unite-create-new-video-format/

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Interesting. I wonder if Apple will support it. JK! Probably Not :D

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sorry i was a little late saw someone already posted this and BTW apple is not helping to develop it

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sorry i was a little late saw someone already posted this and BTW apple is not helping to develop it

 

about what

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google teaming up with other companies to create a open source video format

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the other person didn't go as in depth, but I saw their post none the less.

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actually i double checked and they didn't so i will re edit this to include the article

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actually i double checked and they didn't so i will re edit this to include the article

 

 

the other person didn't go as in depth, but I saw their post none the less.

 

 

google teaming up with other companies to create a open source video format

 

LPT: Edit Your Posts instead of making a lot.

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LPT: Edit Your Posts instead of making a lot.

 

 

Yeah sorry about that, was thinking a little too frantically. 

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Yeah sorry about that, was thinking a little too frantically. 

 

I do it often, i am trying to start of the habit of not doing it.

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Uhhh. HTML5 says hi. No real need for this. Please correct if wrong.

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Uhhh. HTML5 says hi. No real need for this. Please correct if wrong.

A video still needs to have some kind of format for HTML5.
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A video still needs to have some kind of format for HTML5.

Oooooo. This is like a more efficient MP4 or something like that.

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Oooooo. This is like a more efficient MP4 or something like that.

Yeah, and mp4 is neither open-source nor royalty-free. Think of HTML5 video like a media player built into your browser, this is not about the player, but about the thing that is being played.
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Yeah, and mp4 is neither open-source nor royalty-free. Think of HTML5 video like a media player built into your browser, this is not about the player, but about the thing that is being played.

 

That being said. Flash actually supports h.264 video. So it's not like flash is a single codec. Flash is more like a container file and player.

 

This article is a bit messed up in that respect, it should be more tailored towards Google et al, trying to avoid paying h.264 licence fees. And developing an open source royalty free alternative to HEVC (h.265), so presumably they can avoid adding support for that in HTML 5.

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Fantastic news. I got a bit worried when Cisco were announcing Thor because it would mean we would have 4 different formats competing (Daala, Thor, VP10 and H.266). Seems like the first 3 mentioned decided it would be better to collaborate instead of compete.

Hopefully we won't end up with 4 formats competing but we probably will. The next generation we will hopefully go down to just 2.

Edit: just saw the part about it having built in DRM... Why? Why did you have to fuck it up with useless shit like that? Whoever suggested that they implement that deserves to get kicked out of the group.

Way to ruin a potentially great format. By making it fucking defect by design.

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What about webm? Am I missing something here?

THIS SIGNATURE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

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What about webm? Am I missing something here?

 

Webm hasn't taken off that much, mainly because it's supported on only a handful of devices and apps natively. VLC of course is the solution to that but webm adoption is still not widespread. H265 is around the corner so that's looking good in terms of smaller 4K video, but unfortunately it's not opensource. These companies should just build on top of webm imo rather than inventing a whole new format for no valid reason imo

 

Edit: just saw the part about it having built in DRM... Why? Why did you have to fuck it up with useless shit like that? Whoever suggested that they implement that deserves to get kicked out of the group.

Way to ruin a potentially great format. By making it fucking defect by design.

 

Probably only Netflix will be using it for obvious reasons, no big deal imo. At least people won't need Silverlight to use Netflix from a PC anymore.

 

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Nice spam haus you got going there. By the way, on a PC you can edit those into a single post, then report the excess posts to the mods for deletion.

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A video still needs to have some kind of format for HTML5.

WebM

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Edit: just saw the part about it having built in DRM... Why? Why did you have to fuck it up with useless shit like that? Whoever suggested that they implement that deserves to get kicked out of the group.

Way to ruin a potentially great format. By making it fucking defect by design.

Built in sounds like it's mandatory, which it is not.

Netflix is part of this consortium. I don't think distribution companies would license their stuff for DRM-free streaming and when you just stream a video, DRM doesn't matter for a legitimate customer.

Not supporting DRM would lead to more fragmentation and slow adoption as some content providers are obliged to use it.

They implimented support to not fuck it up.

WebM

Don't take my post out of context, I was just pointing out that this will not be competing with HTML5 video which as a standard is indifferent to file types.
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Good, but what's wrong with html5?

 

big names missing:

  • Apple
  • AMD
  • nVidia

hardware decoding is quite important these days

 

For AMD and nVidia it's in their best interest to support as many codecs as possible natively. As for apple, who cares...? What can they bring to the table?

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Good, but what's wrong with html5?

Read my previous posts in this thread, html5 video is not a file format.
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