Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
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Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
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Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#2This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#3This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
This isn't a codec, it's a group to do patent analysis and development for a future codec.
WRT hardware support, I agree, but it won't be available in the early life of any new codec so it's important that it also works well in software (accelerated by SIMD and the like). The power difference is less than you might think, I have some preliminary measurements here: https://people.xiph.org/~tdaede/power/
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#4Would be interesting to see if this can be pulled off mostly due to existing patents. H.265 license covers over 500 patents you can find quite a few of them dating form the 90's which will expire in 2-3 years, but also quite a few that wont.
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/hevc/Documents/hevc-att1...
Considering that many companies patent everything and their mother I wonder if it's possible to actually have a Royalty-Free codec in which the involving parties did not volunteer their IP at no cost because I'm not sure if making one without stepping on the toes of existing patents is possible...
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#5This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
Getting your codec supported in hardware is a tricky business, and as much as I've been a huge fan of the Daala initiative it was always going to be an insurmountable hurdle for Mozilla alone. IMO getting buy-in from Cisco and Youtube actually gives us a fighting chance at an actual royalty-free hardware-supported codec, which is why I'm so excited at this news.
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#6It's definitely cool if we get to a point where Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google aren't each pushing their own video codec in their respective browsers. If this ends that, I'm all for it.
Though as long as it isn't proprietary and DRM'd to crud, you won't see any support from Hollywood.
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#7This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
This is aiming to be better than HEVC, because it won't be ready for a couple of years.
Assuming the groups listed actually back up their words with action, then hardware support will happen, basically every smart TV shipped already has VP9, so if Google's Youtube and Netflix and Amazon and Microsoft agree on a codec, it'll be in hardware (both in the sense of it being available, and in the sense of it being in every video device you can buy almost instantly.)
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#8It's definitely cool if we get to a point where Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google aren't each pushing their own video codec in their respective browsers. If this ends that, I'm all for it. Though as long as it isn't proprietary and DRM'd to crud, you won't see any support from Hollywood.
Well, DRM is completely independent from the codec. You can put DRM on a free codec and you can have a non-free codec without DRM. As for Hollywood... note that the Alliance also includes Netflix.
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#9This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
This is aiming to be better than HEVC, because it won't be ready for a couple of years. Assuming the groups listed actually back up their words with action, then hardware support will happen, basically every smart TV shipped already has VP9, so if Google's Youtube and Netflix and Amazon and Microsoft agree on a codec, it'll be in hardware (both in the sense of it being available, and in the sense of it being in every…
Apple's missing but still good news.
Dealing with video is like dealing with the toothpaste aisle at the store. Just a ridiculous amount of unnecessary information.
Re: Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
#10This is great, but how does it compare to H.265/HEVC? And any news on hardware decoding support? IMO, hardware support is the thing that really makes a difference from a consumer experience point of view (more than patents). It's what allows one to watch hours of video without the device getting hot or losing too much battery life.
You're really putting the kart ahead of the horse when you ask questions such as that. First you need a great and highly competitive royalty-free codec. If it satisfies those requirements, the hardware decoding will come later.