Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec

Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by mbq on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:14AM (#6590593)

Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xiph is working on one supported by Red Hat and Mozilla.

Mozilla buys Monty Montgomery from Red Hat.

Soon: Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xiph is working on one supported by Red Hat and Mozilla.

... very relevant.

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by gillianseed on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:47AM (#6591434)

How are VP8/VP9 (webm) not 'free and libre'?

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by mbq on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:09PM (#6592852)

As I understand, Google can go evil and use its patents to impose certain restrictions, like killing potential independent VP10 project or messing with webm's royalty-free status.

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by gillianseed on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @01:42PM (#6593523)

Since Google are offering them under a _irrevocable_ royalty free licence I don't see how you could have come to 'understand' it that way.

Do you have any references to your claims?

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by cromwellian on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:25PM (#6592975)

Citation?

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by bzbarsky on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @10:47PM (#6596484)

Actually, those fail the "state-of-the-art" part of the test.

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