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Tag: OMS Video

  • How Google’s Open Sourcing of VP8 Harms the Open Web

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    Much of the initial commentary on Google’s open sourcing of the VP8 codec it acquired in purchasing On2 has breathlessly, and uncritically, centered on the purported game-changing impact of the move. But unfortunately, these commentaries miss an essential point that Google has studiously avoided mentioning the need to standardize royalty free codecs (not just release…

  • 6 Things You Should Know About Open Video & Open Standards

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    It is very exciting to see the “Open Video” movement taking off and finding voice with the upcoming Open Video Conference. This well-earned “open breakthrough” has been a long time coming.  After all, open standards, and particularly royalty-free standards, are the very foundation of the Open Internet as we know it, and Internet leaders are…

  • OMS Video at “The State of the Web 2009”

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    Sun’s OMS Video codec work was mentioned in Matt Raible’s notes from the “The State of the Web 2009” session at this week’s Web Directions North conference: “Very specifically, there’s no royalty-free codec for video. This is nothing that standards bodies can solve. The most promising is that Sun Microsystems is developing an open codec…

  • MPEG at 20

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    Updating market information in this post on the release of the royalty-free OMS Video draft specification, here are data points about MPEG released at the MPEG 20th Year Anniversary Commemoration in Tokyo in November 2008. Importantly, Lawrence A. Horn, CEO of the license administration company, affirmed the: “Freedom of Licensors and Licensees to develop competing…

  • Patent Issues Top Open Media Goals

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    “Patent and legal issues” topped, at least numerically, the community goals developed at the recently-held Foundations of Open Media 2009 workshop, a write-up of which was just posted here. Also noted in “Patents and the bright future of open media codecs”, the FOMS group has set aside 15% of its budget to support patent analysis.…

  • OMS Video Draft Specification Released

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    The “Open Media Stack – Video Specification V0.9” is now available for community review at the Open Media Commons website. OMS, announced in April 2008, is a project of Sun Microsystems’ Open Media Commons initiative to define a complete, royalty-free media specification, including codecs and associated elements. The OMS Video draft is a key milestone…