How does a video codec work?

Re:How does a video codec work? by danbmil99 on Saturday November 23, 2019 @01:35PM (#21615634)

sure, if by support you mean "embrace, extend, extinguish".

Today, Apple is every bit as monopolistic and anti-competitive as Microsoft was during Peak Ballmer.

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Re:How does a video codec work? by CharlesW on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:01PM (#21616899)

If that's the narrative you're focused on, you'll want to point to something else to support that.

Apple not only uses standards-based compressed media formats exclusively, but the MPEG-4 file format is the QuickTime Movie file format (which Apple contributed to the standard).

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Re:How does a video codec work? by danbmil99 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:51PM (#21622852)

I'm referring to their gamesmanship wrt AV1. Of course they supported Mpeg4, they were part of the patent cartel (MPEG-LA) with a get-out-of-jail antitrust exemption and cross-licensing to other bigco's such as MS and Sony.

One reason Google bought On2 and pushed VPx/webm/AV1 was because they didn't have video patents to use as trading chips in the cartel (On2 had several patents).

Full disclosure: I was co-founder of On2

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Re:How does a video codec work? by CharlesW on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:53PM (#21630790)

> I'm referring to their gamesmanship wrt AV1.

As I'm sure you know, Apple joined AOMedia to demonstrate their support of AV1, and they're actively looking for Media Video Engineers with experience in AV1 and other video standards[1].

If there's been anti-standards gamesmanship, I'm not aware of it and would appreciate it if you'd share what you know.

[1] https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200109105/media-video-e...

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