blog/data/2012-09-15-ietf-video-codec.txt

   1 Title: IETF activity to standardise video codec
   2 Tags: english, frikanalen, multimedia, video
   3 Date: 2012-09-15 20:00
   4
   5 <p>After the
   6 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
   7 codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
   8 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
   9 to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
  10 too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
  11 area.  A non-"working group" mailing list
  12 <a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
  13 was
  14 <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
  15 formal working group should be formed.</p>
  16
  17 <p>I look forward to see how this plays out.  There is already
  18 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
  19 email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
  20 participate in the ISO group.  Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
  21 that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
  22 multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
  23 joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
  24 involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
  25
  26 <p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
  27 join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
  28 IETF.</p>