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<meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: |
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> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and |
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> may other parts. |
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Well, I was "noodling" around the net about video (VP8) and there |
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seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced |
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VP8 as a replacement for H.264. It seems that the web browser |
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groups each pay millions of dollars per year to be able to give |
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away a browser that supports h.264 streaming video. |
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h.264 is everywhere, cell phone apps, HDTV, utube, just to |
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name a few. Now Theora was based on an old codec (vp3) I believe. |
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Google purchased the company that developed VP8 and purports |
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it to replace h.264. |
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Naturally MPLA (the stinking lawyers behind h.246) is upset |
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because the financial rewards of the the patents behind h.264 |
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are worth an enormous sum of money, over the next few decades. |
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VP8 is not threating that. If you saw my post on Nokia and Microsoft |
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going down the darkside together (very strange), what I did not |
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say is that Balmer is pushing the bussword "EcoSystem" composed |
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of Xbox-live, Office and Bing. |
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Google has that and more. Apple has their own "EcoSystem". |
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Many Browsers will be dropping support for h.264 in the near |
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future, and streaming video, at least in the short run, |
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is now fair game and going to be not interoperable. |
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Is this your problem? Maybe, maybe not. Drop back a version |
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and see if it fixes your problem. |
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Better still, one of the young (smart) kids on this list |
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prolly (guesses?) knows all about this. If it is not your |
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problem now, it surely will be *REAL SOON*; as it will |
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become everybody's problem as the Economic Giants scratch |
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out and protect their "video EcoSystems". Stock prices |
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are more of a concern to these titans, than piss_ants |
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consumuers (that's what they ALL really see in us). So |
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do not be fool, Google is as big a whore as the rest, imho. |
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Google has well intentioned folks, but to quote an old addage |
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"Money talks and Bullshit walks"....... |
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hth, |
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James |
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