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4th March 2011, 18:37 | #422 | Link |
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There are literally billions of dollars at stake. They will pull out all the plugs to combat VP8.
"All video codecs are covered by patents". What is much more an issue here are software patents altogether. Remember when 'Multimedia' was patented? It's ridiculous and really U.S. centric. Every piece of software is based on another piece of software. To even go there and state anything based on DCT is patented is nonsense. I hope they will make this a landmark lawsuit that will severely curtail software patents altogether. |
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libvpx v0.9.6 (Bali) released
New version out today.
blog post announcement: http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/...-released.html codec-devel mailing list announcement post: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproj...f95a8567f1693# edit: they also had the first proper release of the WebP image format last month: https://groups.google.com/a/webmproj...784f36680f740# Last edited by dapperdan; 8th March 2011 at 17:55. |
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If you live in some places in Africa or Asia this may be true. But most places not only have binding treaties with the USA on patents, their governments are working directly with the USA to get even stronger ones that are more easily enforced internationally. Quote:
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Which is one of the major things that patents are used for... to stop the small guy from competing. That is why Microsoft, IBM, et al. support patents even though they are the ones that get sued the most. They just past the cost onto their customers and do not have to worry about smaller upstarts competing against them. Hopefully the Vp8 will succeed and turn video into just another common format. Just a common and easy to use as jpeg, png, gifs, mp3s, and whatever else. That way we can progress and work on more impressive things. |
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It looks like psychovisual optimizations are next thing for VP8.
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Also new version of Vorbis Aotuv was realesed with improved audio quality. http://www.geocities.jp/aoyoume/aotuv/ |
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“Blueberry” VP8 Hardware Encoder IP Released
"Blueberry," the second release of the H1 VP8 hardware encoder.
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12th May 2011, 18:30 | #431 | Link |
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More WebM Tools
Any Video Converter Version 3.23 (released on May 11, 2011 ), add WebM as supported input and output video format.
Then: * Non-commercial WebM Tools (Windows): Miro Video Converter, XMedia Recode, Firefogg, MediaCoder. * Commercial WebM Tools (No cloud soft.): Bigasoft Total Video Converter, Any Video Converter. Do you know of others? Sorry my english |
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This is also interesting.
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12th May 2011, 18:52 | #433 | Link |
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Yes, looks like a future VP8 segmentation + bitrate distribution is totally opposite to x264´s mbtree. Although mbtree does good job there are other approachs.
It is a possibility that more optimal way will be smart algorithm in the middle of both. About optimality of mbtree Last edited by IgorC; 12th May 2011 at 18:54. |
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Yeah though i find it bad news that Microsoft bought Skype
Skype always drove the VPx for low latency Videoconferencing and im not sure if Microsoft will continue that (actually it would be pretty strange if they would) on the other side with websockets nowadays skypes videoconferencing doesn't matter that much anymore.
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@mariush
you shouldn't underestimate with what the guys from Beijing might come up with , they worked exactly on this with their Titanium Codec http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yanlu/
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I'm not saying multi-bitrate vc1 is bad.. it could be very good. What irks me is that pretty much all technologies end up getting shoved down people's throats, whether they want it or not.
Just today I got a message saying important update available - the only thing was Microsoft Malicious Software whatever it's called.... People have short memory but when Microsoft bought Gecad's IP (rav antivirus) antivirus software makers complained that they'll get out of business and Microsoft said the software will be optional to download from website so it's not a problem. Well, soon it turned to optional software components and now for a long time it's important software update and always checked even if I don't have it installed now. Now a new thing there in the optional updates is Microsoft Live Essentials... how much time do I have until they'll push it to "important updates" and always checked... Silverlight is also always checked each week in the optional updates and I have to uncheck it manually just to get the popup stop nagging me. It's damn annoying and frustrating and makes me lose trust in MS's products so much I don't even care to try these nice technologies they may make. Imho the technology behind video in skype will change 100% because they have the vc1/h264 hardware decoding in Xbox360 and they'll want to integrate Xbox360 with Skype... and for pc, what better way to implement it than silverlight, which they can just load as a plugin in an embedded html page or something like that. Microsoft is also having patents and is part of the h264/vc1 licensing group so they don't really care that much about royalties... |
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