Major Tech Companies Form 'Alliance For Open Media' To Create Royalty-Free Video Codec

[Lucian Armasu]

Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix announced the "Alliance for Open Media" that will create a patent-unencumbered and royalty-free next-generation video codec.

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[dogmang]

They should use Wavelet based compression. Way better quality than existing DCT based compression algorithms.

 

[chicofehr]

I wish the movie industry, adobe, avid, video cameras makers etc. would join this too. They are all addicted to using patented, DRM filled, lobbyist backed, lawyer approved crap.

 

[back_by_demand]

Movie industry can do what it wants, if Google, Microsoft and Intel push it then they won't have much choice.

 

[alidan]

what i want is a highly compressible codec that can be scaled from extreme compression but high resource use to low compression but likewise next to not resource use.

currently for games i use the lagarith lossless codec, next to no overhead but also large file sizes, but lets say something came around that was a comparable low overhead but offered great compression, and above all else, could be used in a video editor... god thats a dream come true for me.

 

[falchard]

Uh, aren't there already dozens of these codecs?