Why NOT open Video, And Why $100k won’t go very far

by Brandon Wirtz

So Mozilla wants an Open Video format for the web.  Yeah well, I want cheap health care for every person on the planet, a pony, and a Red Rider BB gun.  Did these people even talk to Acacia? Let’s start with a clarification, VC1, H.264, and Mpeg2 are all Open. You can go out to [...]

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Jan Ozer Is NOT a Compressionist

by Brandon Wirtz

Just because someone writes for StreamingMedia.com, doesn’t make them an expert in the space.  Most the time it means quite the opposite.  I work for a company that is betting on H.264, but I quite strongly think Jan Ozer’s piece (OS) about Microsoft dumping VC-1 is so poorly researched that Jan should consider a change [...]

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