Sun Developing Open Media Stack 99
Graftweed writes to share that Sun is working on a new open video codec called Open Media Stack (OMS). OMS video will be based on H.26x technology and promises to deliver royalty-free open video. This certainly isn't the first attempt at an open codec, hopefully Sun will decide to add something to the table beyond just their name.
Xvid (Score:5, Informative)
Blog entry about OMS Video (Score:1, Informative)
Re:If Sun wanted to do something smart (Score:1, Informative)
Re:dumb question (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Alas, another flavour (Score:5, Informative)
What we really want is something which is comparable to h.264.
Re:Open source? (Score:3, Informative)
Some people just don't understand that "Open Source" doesn't mean "license-compatible with my license of choice."
Re:Alas, another flavour (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Alas, another flavour (Score:5, Informative)
H.26x: what is it? (Score:3, Informative)
I had no idea how tangled the standards were... ugh.
Re:Seriously? Why? (Score:4, Informative)
doom9 has more info.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Alas, another flavour (Score:3, Informative)
http://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/stereo.html [xiph.org] - there is joint stereo support in OGG.
OGG format also has 5.1 support but I have not seen it 'in the wild'.