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.
I thought h.26x was patented (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously? Why? (Score:5, Interesting)
NIH, perhaps? Too many bored engineers?
Re:Alas, another flavour (Score:2, Interesting)
Of course they could have just supported one of the other open formats, but why would you blow tons of cash on someone else's failed format when you can have your very own stillborn one? The grief is just so much more personal that way.
Re:Seriously? Why? (Score:5, Interesting)
I have been posting about Dirac in almost every thread on video codecs on Slashdot hoping to raise awareness; the fact that it is truly free and (hopefully) not going to be encumbered by patent rubbish means we might stand a chance of freeing Internet video from the clutches of Adobe/Flash and all the h264/other codec patent holders.
NIH, perhaps? Too many bored engineers?