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Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, et al Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Codec

posted by takyon on Tuesday September 01 2015, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the open-for-business dept.

tt2575988 writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:39PM (#231012)

    Cisco is the one who started this. And from the excellent link you gave:

    As a result, we released project Thor to the community two weeks ago. We open sourced the code, which you can find here: http://thor-codec.org. [thor-codec.org.] We also contributed Thor as an input to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which has begun a standards activity to develop a next-gen royalty free video codec in its NetVC workgroup. Mozilla has also been active in that group, and they have been working on technology as well (called Daala) towards the same goal. As more technology gets contributed to this cause, the greater its chance of success.

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