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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   
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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• If only there was a pre-existing open project... If only there was a pre-existing open project... (Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:49PM

  by richtopia (3160) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @10:49PM (#231015) Homepage Journal

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daala [wikipedia.org]

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• Re:If only there was a pre-existing open project.. (Score: 5, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:05PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:05PM (#231020) Journal

  http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/01/alliance_for_open_media/ [theregister.co.uk]

  The new codec won't need to be built from scratch. Several of the Alliance's members have already been working on royalty-free video codecs independently, including Cisco's Thor, Mozilla's Daala, and Google's VP10.

  The Alliance will pool the tech from those three projects as the starting point for whatever it comes up with, which Bryant said Mozilla expects to be a "truly world-class" codec.

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