vkem
1st April 2003, 15:48
Hi all,
i have some great news to spread today, and i am indeed extremely happy
that i have the honour of doing so :
The matroska project, including all source code and the main
specification, by signed contract dated 31st March 2003, was sold to the
International Bussiness Machine Corporation ( IBM ), New Orchard Road,
Armonk, NY 10504, USA. . My thanks goes to Dan 'Metaboy' Marlin from the
Corecodec team for making the initial contact, Dan, without you this
would have not been possible.
IBM will convert the matroska project and all libraries into a closed
source format, but make the binaries of the library publically available
for non-commercial usage, together with an API to be able to read/write
matroska files from all applications on different OSes. An arrangement
was made with all active developers to make it possible to allow a
changing of the existing GPL/QPL dual licensing system.
After months of hard negotiations there can be no doubt that one of the
first commercial license takers of matroska will be the Matsushita
Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, chosing matroska as their main container
format for an upcoming proprietary blue laser DVD standard to be
released by Panasonic and some of their licensees on the new standard,
in an attempt to avoid the domination of the Windows Media Video 9 (TM)
standard from Micorosoft (R) for next generations HDTV video. Panasonic
already announced they will use a wavelet based video codec called WARP,
created by the IBM video compression department around the well known
codec expert Mr. Toby Hudon ( performing wavelet on 512 consecutive
frames, and on every frame itself ), and to use the musepack audio
compression format ( MPC ) for audio.
I sincerely hope that all of you will see the big advantage for the
opensource audio and video community in undertaking this step, as from
now on there will be one new standard a/v container, in possession of
one of the biggest computer companies of the world, but fully available
for the community.
Best regards from Hawaii
Christian
Source:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel/524
i have some great news to spread today, and i am indeed extremely happy
that i have the honour of doing so :
The matroska project, including all source code and the main
specification, by signed contract dated 31st March 2003, was sold to the
International Bussiness Machine Corporation ( IBM ), New Orchard Road,
Armonk, NY 10504, USA. . My thanks goes to Dan 'Metaboy' Marlin from the
Corecodec team for making the initial contact, Dan, without you this
would have not been possible.
IBM will convert the matroska project and all libraries into a closed
source format, but make the binaries of the library publically available
for non-commercial usage, together with an API to be able to read/write
matroska files from all applications on different OSes. An arrangement
was made with all active developers to make it possible to allow a
changing of the existing GPL/QPL dual licensing system.
After months of hard negotiations there can be no doubt that one of the
first commercial license takers of matroska will be the Matsushita
Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, chosing matroska as their main container
format for an upcoming proprietary blue laser DVD standard to be
released by Panasonic and some of their licensees on the new standard,
in an attempt to avoid the domination of the Windows Media Video 9 (TM)
standard from Micorosoft (R) for next generations HDTV video. Panasonic
already announced they will use a wavelet based video codec called WARP,
created by the IBM video compression department around the well known
codec expert Mr. Toby Hudon ( performing wavelet on 512 consecutive
frames, and on every frame itself ), and to use the musepack audio
compression format ( MPC ) for audio.
I sincerely hope that all of you will see the big advantage for the
opensource audio and video community in undertaking this step, as from
now on there will be one new standard a/v container, in possession of
one of the biggest computer companies of the world, but fully available
for the community.
Best regards from Hawaii
Christian
Source:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel/524