Breaking Open the Video Frontier, Despite MPEG-LA 66
JimLynch writes "Did you know that nearly every video produced for Web viewing has been, at one point or another, in MPEG format no matter in what format the video is ultimately saved? According to Chris 'Monty' Montgomery, nearly every consumer device outputs video in MPEG format. Which means that every software video decoder has to have MPEG-licensed technology in order to process/edit video."
An interesting snippet: "But there's hope on the horizon. Besides the codecs and formats from the Xiph.Org Foundation, the new WebM format announced by Google in May will ideally provide consumers and developers with another alternative. Montgomery has thrown Xiph.Org support behind WebM, because Google's financial muscle (not to mention their free license) will have a real chance to break the hold MPEG-LA has on the market."
Re:Not nearly every... (Score:3, Informative)
MJPEG is insanely ineffective. It's no different from just a series of JPEG stills, without taking any advantage of frames being similar to each other.
This means, you have a really huge bitrate for lousy quality.
Jesus, WAKE UP SLASHDOT EDITORS! (Score:3, Informative)
More bullshit linkbait blog articles from JimLynch. He's been banned from posting in the message bases on a couple other websites (ArsTechnica, Endgadget) due to repeatedly posting links to his poorly written, copy-and-paste blog articles to drive ad impressions. So how long will it take Slashdot to stop taking submissions from this leech?
Or I suppose if I buy a $9.95 "BE AN INTERWEBS MARKETING WIZARD" book at Borders, I can submit whatever crap I want on slashdot too?
Re:Not nearly every... (Score:3, Informative)
DV is basically a slightly altered MJPEG, and it's a pretty popular acquisition format. It's not the best quality, but I'd hardly call it lousy.
RTA dude. (Score:2, Informative)
Paragraph three, right at the top:
"Very old cams (SD) usually used MJPEG, which is OK. Everything newer is MPEG2 or AVCHD [which is MPEG4]."