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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: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday September 02 2015, @02:07AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @02:07AM (#231096)

    Actually it was Xiph's absence that set off the alarms because there is no way in Hell they would work in a group planning anything foul. They (ok, mostly Monty and the mouse in his pocket) are experts at codec development and implementation and should be there, having actually succeeded at developing a patent free codec and actually getting it deployed in the real world. MozCorp is enemy territory as far as I'm concerned. When they aren't stopping all work to play butthurt SJW games because somebody did somebody unrelated to their work they are supporting DRM, bundling in commercial spyware into their supposedly "Free" browser, building an App Store, promoting their own OS with locks and threatening trademark lawsuits if somebody wants the evil bits gone. The Mozilla and Firefox brands are pretty much tainted at this point to where only a fork can cleanse the code and restore trust. The others named are pretty much the "rogues gallery" of the enemies of the Free Internet.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:32AM (#231141)

    > MozCorp is enemy territory as far as I'm concerned.

    Daala is a collaboration between Mozilla and Xiph.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:30PM (#231454)

    > Actually it was Xiph's absence that set off the alarms because there is no way in Hell they would work in a group planning anything foul.

    Monty is happy with it. [livejournal.com]