X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/a14f32a108d34f2ac1ef6b070378ed16eaa23660..7090dabcf90319c3dd5aeef4aefa64296e69f6b5:/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss b/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss index 59b0edab85..27ce9b4589 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss @@ -6,6 +6,38 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + IETF activity to standardise video codec + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html + Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200 + <p>After the +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus +codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as +<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look +to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec +too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this +area. A non-"working group" mailing list +<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a> +was +<a href="http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created 2012-08-20</a>. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a +formal working group should be formed.</p> + +<p>I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already +<a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an +email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to +participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given +that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced +multimedia formats in the past requiring royalty payments, I suspect +joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not +involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p> + +<p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will +join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within +IETF.</p> + + + IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html