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I had the same thought. I think its because he wants to get "Sent from my iPad" on the internet on as many web pages and into as many minds as possible. Its a marketing ploy.
Ah, that's why they're so short!
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Here's a summary of the license terms: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Documents/AVC_TermsS... Let's say you make videos and sell access to them on your web site on a title-by-title basis :) Videos 12 min, USD $0.02 per title or 2% of access price, whichever is less.
Oh, maybe that's the basis of the general YouTube 10-minute limit...
> (...) A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. >
I think that's great news... If the "industry" finally compiles a list of patents that they think theora voilates we can:
1. find prior art. 2. work around the possible valid patents.
Afterwards all the submarine patents are gone, and we can prove it...
"A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now." That's kind of scary.
So this is excellent news for Theora, as it could be an end to the "submarine patent" FUD.
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No, his example referenced a little known fact about H.264, comparing hardware decodable H.264 versus non-hardware-decodable H.264. The iPhone isn't playing some other codec. H.264 can be encoded, using the same tools, in a way that can, or cannot, be hardware decoded.
I was pretty sure he was referring to VP6-encoded Flash video, not some version of H.264 that is harder to decode. Could you provide more information on non-hardware-decodable versions?
I believe Jobs is talking about comparing two videos on the iPhone, with hardware accelerated video lasting 10 hours and non-accelerated video lasting 5 hours. You may not notice if you're not paying attention to battery while you watch video.
To the sibling comment here, I'm not referring to profiles. I'm referring to the fact that various implementations of H.264 encoders produce content that, depending on the implementation, may or may not be accelerated by the iPhone's PowerVR SGX 535.
One can produce a pair of H.264 encoded in .mp4 container movies, encoded from the same mpeg2ts original, one of which can use hardware acceleration, and the other of which cannot.
(I haven't had the chance to check yet if Adobe's 'Gala' responds the same way to such files on the desktop Macs Gala supports.)
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I was pretty sure he was referring to VP6-encoded Flash video, not some version of H.264 that is harder to decode. Could you provide more information on non-hardware-decodable versions?
He probably means H.264 profiles. iPhone (and Android phones) can decode only certain profiles (Baseline), and up to certain levels (depending on resolution). Even hardware assisted decoding with PC graphics cards can accelerate only up to certain level (usually high@4.1, but some nvidias can decode high@5). The rest is more complex than hardware assisted decoders are able to decode and pure software codec has to be…
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I thought it was obvious. Perhaps I should rephrase it: All for-profit companies contribute to open-source because it benefits them.
Yes, at least the companies should aim for that. I asked because some companies embrace the benefit and do not grudge.
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He's been doing short emails for years, and the occasional open letter, but it seems that he's doing it a lot more as of late. Presumably in response to all the recent Apple controversy.
Either that or more people are posting/linking them.
Hopefully Bilski renders these patent issues moot. I really, really hope that. And if it does, I expect multi-media to improve quite a bit in the next 2 years.
And that won't even be the wrong decision, really. There is no constitutional basis for a ruling on software and/or business-method patentability, one way or the other. It's clear that Congress is supposed to make those calls.
I asked on the Theora mailing list their thoughts on SJ's answer and this is what I got from one of the dev: > (...) A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. > I think that's great news... If the "industry" finally compiles a list of patents that they think theora voilates we can: 1. find prior art. 2. work around the possible valid patents. Afterwards all the submarine…
Well, no, only the submarine patents from MPEG-LA signatories are gone.