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Seven big-name Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The Alliance's founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix.
Reportedly, the group plans to publish its code under the Apache 2.0 license and it will operate under W3C patent rules, meaning the members will waive royalties from the codec implementations and their patents on the codec itself.
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Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, et al Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Codec
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:35PM
Great, what kind of tracking will be built into *that* codec?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:44PM
A DRM locked to a mac address or some other BS. Anything MS is going to be questionable as far as I care.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:44PM
lol - no media will play (even if the file is local) unless you are connected to a public net AND the ping-test has passed to all 'necessary' upstream ip's and domains.
(just kidding. ping-test only has to reach 80% of those.)
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mtrycz on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:56PM
Microsoft isn't special: they too have to pay royalties for codecs, each and every one of them, and they certainly want to keep thei Media Player (or what's it called in 2015) relevant. A new, free, coded is a win to everyone, including the big names in this list. Or just calculate the royalties YouTube (=Google, now Alphabet) pays.
Obviously, the new codec being Apache Licensed, every vendor will be able to compile and distribute their own version with their own version, probably without even telling. Obviously, being Apache Licensed, everyone will be able to compile from source.
Obviously, I won't believe it untill I've seen it.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:34AM
and does it "play for sure"?
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