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New Open Video Codec From Xiph/On2
xercist writes: "Xiph.org, the bringers of the mighty Vorbis codec, have done it again. The patents on On2's VP3 video codec have been effectively neutered, and it is being released under the BSD license for all to enjoy. The combination of VP3 video and Vorbis audio (in an OGG bitstream, of course) will be called Theora, and will soon take over the world. The ETA to a 1.0 release is approximately one year. You can also read an interview with Emmett Plant (Xiph CEO) here. The official press release will be up tomorrow, so don't complain about lack of mention on xiph.org just yet."
With snippy scissors and a cold, cold heart.
"Hold still, little patent, this will only hurt for a second..."
Heh.
Those 386s are too expensive. I can only see them being used for servers.
Doom requires more CPU than anyone has.
Color video hardware is too expensive. Besides, everyone knows that monochrome monitors are clearer.
4 gigabyte limit!? Hah! Like anyone will ever buy a hard disk that big!
The Genesis sequence looks pretty cool, but you can only make stuff like that on multimillion dollar machines.
Home networking? Get real. These 3Com cards cost $300 apiece, and most home people don't know how to lay out RG58AU cable anyway. You should see how this one numbskull hooked up his terminator. Home networking, no way.
640k should be enough for anyone.
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